HAWKE'S BAY TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 11

HAWKE'S BAY TEACHERS

| ATTITUDE TO FREE SCHOOL BOOKS. | (BV TEUiGIUI'II—SI'ECUL'COHItESrONDBNT.) ■ I _ Haplor, May 2. ' The annual meeting of.the Hawke's Bay I branch of the Teachers', Institute was held on The : report; in reference to fr^.school.boots stated:— '';Another ; -impo^nt ;3 ohange.viri''thoASchoob . work" ha a been tho introduction of free school books .in the 'lower- classes. • This has not ibepn' a matter of .unalloyed bliss-to : the . teachera. 'Apartfroiri tho extra-work entailed in looking after these bookstand cer-. tain questions of hygieno which mustcrop up; in- the';near future,'. the, system has practically' put a stop to the preparation of work at tome. .If tne Goveniment has money to spend in this'way,'would it not be-better to supply. all tho children with. exercise and drawing books, and allow them to purchase their own.tost-books?" 1 - ;; The election of officers resulted as follows: —President, Mi;.' Williamson; vice-president; Mr.- Smith ; Secretary, .arid treasuror, Mr. M. E. Grant; (re-elected)committee, Mrs: . An-' dersonvand: Messrs.: Hislop, -Martin,\Pegler, and Speight. ' .-.'After a warm-.discussion", tho following-re-' solution.- was; CarrieduSc'-'Tha • Napier. .branch'f of'tho Educational Institute most emphatic- 1 ally,,protests against the unwarrahtablo and derogatory .remarks-, made:by the B-ev. A. Grant at the March meeting of thoEduca-: tion 'Boardj- arid regards-the whole spirit of his speech as an insult to the teaching profession." ...v.