SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Conference Approves Remits The annual conference of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association was continued at Wellington College yesterday, when Mr. W. A. Armour, principa of Wellington Boys’ College, presided over 76 delegates, including 14 principals, representing 46 schools. Only three schools were not represented. A remit put forward by the Southland Boys’ High School, providing that "D” grade salary bar in the secondary schools be removed for assistants who are graded "C” or higher, to bring the secondary schools into line with the technical and combined schools, where the salary bar does not operate, was carried. <The conference approved of a proposal by the Otago Boys’ High School that the department be asked to consider the question of altering the grading system so ns to increase the proportion of “A” and “B” positions in the -secondary schools. ■ Auckland Girls’ Grammar School submitted a remit, suggesting that the question of more liberal staffing in New Zealand secondary schools receive attention, which was endorsed.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 2
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