A TEACHER WITH A LARGE FAMILY.
DEPARTMENT WILL NOT ENLARGE HOUSE. [M TSCBGEiPH — IPKJI.Vt TO THB TOST.] ' AUCKLAND, This Day. The' troubles, of teachers in the Dominion schools are many and varied, but it is rarely that a teacher has to appeal "to the paternal regard of the department for a bigger house because his family is >so large. The residence at the New Lynn School is of six rooms, but the head" teacher has ten children, and yesterday, supported by a member of the committee, he asked the Minister for Education to assist him in his endeavour to ■ hare the house enlarged. The Minister replied that the limit was a six-roomed houre, and the department never made grants for additions to residence* of that size. I The teacher (Mr. H. G. S. Ellis) replied that he had ten children, and : some of his boys -had to sleep outside ' in tents, and the dining-room' was 'too small to accommodate the whole household at one sitting. Mr. Powlds said that there were many teachers living in houses of four or nve rooms, and without bathrooms,' and -the department's first care was ' to give larger rooms to those teachers before enlarging six-roomed' houses. '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 3
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201A TEACHER WITH A LARGE FAMILY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 3
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