WORK FOR TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 171, 16 April 1931, Page 11

WORK FOR TEACHERS

Temporary Employment NO OBJECTION RAISED No objection whatsoever is made by the department to unemployed teachers engaging in other work than teaching, said the Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, yesterday. The ouly condition is that those teachers who are under a bond to serve the department in consequence of the expenses of their training baying been met out of public funds, hold themselves ready to return to duty whenever permanent positions could be found for them. , , Mr. Strong referred to the report that the Wellington School Committees’ Association had been informed by a teacher who could not secure a position that the department had stated, that she would not be allowed to engage in any other work, and further, that the department had compelled her to give up a position she had secured at the Wellington Hospital. Mr. Strong had no knowledge of any such communication being sent to a. teacher. Speaking on the general question of tinemployment among teachers, the director stated that as all the vacancies caused by death and retirement did not occur early in the year but were distributed over the whole year, it was inevitable that teachers who finished their training in December last should have to wait some little time for employment. The department had kept a careful cheek on the needs of the service before authorising the admission of new entrants to lhe (raining colleges, but the present financial depression had apparently caused fewer teachers to retire cither for marriage Or through a completion of service. Consequently these unknown factors had interfered considerably with the department’s calculations.