LACK OF SENIOR TEACHERS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 6

LACK OF SENIOR TEACHERS

Intermediate Schools At Auckland

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. May 3.

Intermediate school pupils, in the “difficult pre - adolescent stage,” were being taught by inexperienced teachers, the chairman of the Wesley Intermediate School (Mr T. J. Lawrence) said in Auckland last night. He told the annual meeting of parents that this meant that teachers were being trained at the expense of pupils. Only two teachers at intermediate schools have senior grading, he said, the others being inexperienced. Mr Lawrence said an approach had been made to the Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) by both the Intermediate Schools’ Association and the Intermediate Head Masters’ Association, asking for six senior teachers at each intermediate school “I understand that we are to get one more, making three,” he added.

Son’s Regiment Captured Father.— Private Hans Mathon of the. United States Army has discovered that he is serving with the division which captured his father, then a German soldier, during World War IL Private Mathon, who lives in California, came to Germany recently to join the 10th Division, and here met his father for the first time in two years. “Almost before we had greeted each other,” Mathon said, “my father asked me what kind of a patch I was wearing. I told him it was the 10th Division. He burst out laughing and told me it was this division which captured him in Italy during the war.”—Bonn (Reuter).