THE FIFTIETH YEAR

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 14, 9 May 1933, Page 9

THE FIFTIETH YEAR

N.Z.E.I. JUBILEE

CONFERENCE OPENS

The fiftieth annual conference of the Now Zealand Educational Institute opened in the Dominion Farmers' Institute Hall tins morning. The president (Mr. W. "F. Ael) was in the chair,-and there was a full attendance of delegates from all parts of tho Dominion. ... Mr. Abel formally welcomed tho delegates and expressed pleasure at, the presence of a number of those who had done so much When the institute was in its, early stages. . The newly-appointed Director of Education (Mr. N. T. Lambourne) thanked the institute for its congratulatory, letter on the occasion of his appointment, and said that he was fully sensible of the. responsibilities of his office. He would do everything in his power to advance the cause of education in all its branches, and would bo very pleased at air times to have tho co-operation of the institute. He' hoped that tho happy relations which had always existed between the Education Department and the institute would continue, as they were both working to the same end, the good of the child. There were many ways in which they could work together. Mr. Lambourne congratulated the institute on the at- ; tainment of' its jubilee, and referred to the prominent part which it had played in the many changes which, had taken place. The institute, he said, had had for ..its successive presidents men whose names would be for all time associated with the development of education in New Zealand. He also congratulated Miss M. Miigill, who was to have the double honour of being the first president in the second fifty years and the- first lady teacher to; attain that position. Professor W. H. Gould, of Victoria University College, addressed tire con-, ference on the philosophy of education, and his; remarks are, reported under separate headings. . ". . After the . roll of honour of New Zealand teachers who fell during the Great War had been read, the conference adjourned and a wreath was. laid at the foot of the Citizens' War Memorial. The rest of the morning session, was; devoted to the reading of the president's address (which is reported elsewhere) and formal business. .