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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 128, 27 November 1923, Page 6

The deEire of many English school tdachers to obtain positions in tho Dominions and colonies was. mentioned afc Auckland last week by Mr. W M'Coy, Director of Education for South Australia, who was a through passenger for Australia by the B.M.S. Makura after attending the Imperial Education Conference in London. Mr. M'Coy engaged 70 teachers for.service under his Government, and he speaks of them as l lngrrS. be3t type and well certificated. There seemed to him to be a large surplus of teachers in England, and in calling applications for the positions open in his State lie received applications ffom over 300 persons, including women. However, he was authorised to take only singla men.

"I think before we purchase.any more motor-trucks we should make every inquiry to see if we cannot get one of an English make to suit our purpose " remarked Mr. W. Can- Rollett, at a meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council last week, when a proposal came before that body to purchase a truck of American make. The speaker said he had heard users of trucks say that an English truck was worth three of any American truck. Other members of the council that preference should be given to a truck of British make. Mr. F. A. de la Mare said that even if it cost a little more, money, a truck of English make should be purchased, not only on account of its greater durability but also because America had not "played v tho game" with reparation's. The matter was referred back to a committee with a reeotwiendation to favouf the purchase of an English truck.