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Evening Star, Issue 7496, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Judgment was recently given by the Supreme Court of Victoria on tho application by Miss Stark to compel the Committee of Classifiers of Teachers under the Public Service Act to classify her under some one of the subdivisions of the fifth class. She had been a certificated teacher prior to the passing of the Public Service Act in 1883, and was appointed as an assistant to a scho 1 at North Melbourne. The classifiers under the Public Service Act classified her as a junior assistant. She objected to being thus classified, as it prevented her from obtaining the increment of salary in the fifth class, aud interfered with her right to promotion, and she claimed that she should be placod in some one of the subdivisions of the fifth class. The Court held that the Committee of Classifiers were wrong in Miss Stark as a junior assistant, as that [ • ition was intended only for persons who r- oil the temporary employment of the department, and not for those entitled to permanent employment. The application tha* Miss Stark should be classified under one of the subdivisions of the fifth class was therefore granted, but without costs. This' decision will affect the position of aboi:t 200 other assistant-teachorg ftnd tlw Treasu.y t 0 the extent of L 15.000. I