TEACHERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 6

TEACHERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL

PREPARATIONS MADE Nelson, January 7. Next week over three hundred school teachers from various portions of the Dominion will assemble in Nelson for the third session of the Teachers’ Summer School. For some months a local committee (with Mr. J._ H. Ihornton, secretary of the Education Board, as secretary) has been busy making arrangements to accommodate the visitors, and to provide for their entertainment out of “school” hours. Women to the number of about 140 will camp at the Auckland Point School, each classroom of which has been transformed into a dormitory containing about fifteen beds and convenient wardrobe equipment. Fifty men students are to be accommodated in the Central School, in Nile Street, where, in addition to beds, shower baths have been installed. The municipal baths will be thrown open free to the visitors. The Nelson lawn tennis championship meeting will commence next week, and it is expected that a number of the teachers,will participate. The Velnifi rooms, in Bridge Street, will be used for dining purposes, while at night the dance hall will be in use A. civic reception will be; accorded the visitors on Tuesday. The panel of lecturers include Mr. R. -A. Falla, M.A., lecturer at Auckland Teachers’ Training College; Dr. P. Marshall, ex-professor of geology, Otago University; Mr. F. Milner,Rector of Waitaki High School, who will deal with the problems of the Pacific and recent developments within the British Empire; Air. J. W. Shaw, lecturer in English at Auckland Training College; Professor T. D. Adams, professor of classics at Otago University; Mr. H. Longworth, chief instructor of physical education for the Dominion; and Mr. E. D. Tayler, director of music.