SCHOOL TEACHERS
RATIONING SYSTEM
(By Telegraph-> Press Association.) CHRISTCHTJRCH, February 26. A > denial of an assertion that the Education Department was taking advantage of the number of unemployed teachers to oxp^it^thoso in permanent positions was given* today by the Minister of Education (the Hon. R. Masters) in an addiess at the opening of the new intermediate school.
Mr. Masters eaid that the Department had had a very serious time with teachers, and was faced last year "with a total of 1800 out of employment. Although the Department had no legal responsibility, it felt that it had a moral responsibility to those men and women who had been trained in^its institutions. He had,' therefore, secured the co-operation of the Minister of Ejnployment, and he.was glad to say that today all those tea.ch.ers were employed. Except jn Christchurch, where there recently had been adverse criticism, he had had nothing but approbation for the scheme, and'he, had had personal thanks from many of the rationed teachers. The Government had' I not been taking advantage of rationed I teachers to supplant teachers in perniaInent positions. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 4
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181SCHOOL TEACHERS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 4
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