OUT OF WORK

Evening Post, Volume CCX, Issue 145, 22 June 1933, Page 4

OUT OF WORK

AUCKLAND TEACHERS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, June 21. The statement that about 480 certificated former students.,of the Auckland Training College were without permailcnt : employment as teachers was mado at ;:a meeting of. the.'Auckland. Education': Board,, when tho secretary supplied figures in' Tesponse: to a request'i'rom the Department. Of this number, ,169, comprising 40 men and 129 women, were not employed at all. The remainder were acting in various temporary capacities. A letter .from 'the Otago Education Board stated that it was of the opinion that too many division C students and University' graduates were ■ being trained and that this had been a fastor in accentuating the unemployment difficulty. The chairman (Mr. T. W. Wells) said that 20 <jf these ex-trainees were ,not in permanent positions. The- board decided to endorse the opinion of the Otngo board.' The Otago board-referred also, to the employment, of additional assistants under a rationing scheme, and asked for particulars of the saving in expenditure in tho Auckland district. It was decided to reply that there was no saving in Auckland, as the payment of the additional teachers employed offset the saving in. salaries. |