OUTSIDE WORK

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 11

OUTSIDE WORK

POSITION OF TECHNICAL

TEACHERS.

By Telegraph. —press association.

Auckland, June IS.'. Whether the new regulations on the subject could be interpreted as direct.)v prohibiting outside work by fulltime teachers was a question that the Board of Managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College discussed when dealing with the merits of one case that the director referred to the board. “I have a draughtsman who acts as an instructor with my consent, said Mr \ Burt, “and my attitude is that I have' no objection so long as his outside activities do not interfere with his ° r ‘H tlnnk you 'will find there are many instructors at this college who are domE outside work," said Mr. J. 1. Mcl . ail. The director, Mr. G. J- 1 ark, sirid .t was quite allowable formerly, but the position was different under the now re F?iially“ S the members interpreted the regulations as meaning that outside work was not permissible if it | ntPri ®l' ed with an instructor s conduct of his classes, and the matter "’On referred to (he director, who, it was held, was • competent authority to decide ''hetliw a class was suffering, owing to the outside activities of an instructor.