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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24749, 14 December 1945, Page 8

Shortage of School Teachers „Jhe , shorta g e of school teachers would become a national disaster unless the public and the Government tlonTf * a '\ ec ! ucation boards and head teachers took action, said the ladv fbe Timaru Girls’ High School (Miss V. Townsend) when speaking at the break-up ceremony of the school at Timaru lastTvenmg There were still as many girls entering the secondary schools wffo wished to be teachers and who, in spite of rejection for Training College still nersevered; yet schools were acutely sliort of teachers, and the causes were not far , to seek, she said. After years of fffi„ the P upils found their School fellows who spent possibly only two as""much C °P dary schop l co°uld earn ?i u . as ’ . or even more than they could, in sptte_ of complete freedom student e lM n h bility. Salaries offered student teachers had not been comthe responsibilities and qualifications required by comparison with those offered in otter Sometimes, having qua" f®Istudents 1 students had the misfortune to appjy m a year when the quota was small, and so, they could not all he Figures showed that pupils f° r some years been turning |9.®ther more secure and more profitavenues of employment and *v n^? ue to 50 Canterbury if this yearns experience of the small ta T . was repeated, said Miss Townswas not the fault of any one person or public body, but agtion should be taken to alter the position, she said. Miss Townsend endorsed the action of the Timaru Electors’ Asso-' ciation in supporting Mr A. E. Lawhave another! Teachers Training College established.!