Rural Areas Lack Teachers’ Homes

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30712, 30 March 1965, Page 18

Rural Areas Lack Teachers’ Homes

(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 29. Lack of houses for teachers in rural areas was often the reason for the lack of teachers, said a remit to the national conference of the New Zealand School Committees’ Federation.

trict high schools to be attached to the secondary department as recommended by the Education Commission where the parents so desire. That further pressure be brought to bear on the Education Department to provide some suitable covering for floors in infant departments at no cost to school committees; That supplies of materials for craft work, social studies and the language syllabus be considerably increased and a greater variety be provided. That materials for methods advocated at in-service training courses should be available to teachers when they return to their In some rural areas, particularly where small schools had been consolidated, a lengthy history of permanent teacher shortage coincided with a lack of adequate housing, it was stated.

It was decided the federation should press for a more elastic code of teacher housing supply in rural areas. Among other remits carried were:—

That the Minister of Education be requested to permit forms 1 and 2 in dis-

schools so that these new teaching schemes may be adopted in the classroom immedaitely.

A similar remit, from Otago, that the department make sufficient funds available to cover the cost of all teaching aids and equipment recommended by the department and inspectorate, was combined with those from Auckland and Canterbury.