EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August IS, At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute to-da tiie president (Mr F. A. Garry) occupied the chair. The following remits were carried:--
That clause 5 of the constitution fo branches be amended so that the word “ after it is due ” become “ after a demand by the secretary ” (Hawke’s Bay). That suggestions outlined by tne Health Department bo given olfect to. and that tno Education department bo asked to provide an increased grant fur this purpose (Masiertou). That, in view of the largo number of women teachers and of special needs of girls in our schools, the time has come for the appointment of capable women to the inspectorate and to administrative positions in the Education Department (Wellington). That a committee he sot up consisting of representatives of the institute and of the department to arrange more suitable sets of books for primary schools than the present set of authorised books (South Taranaki).
That ns a majority of students at. tlio training colleges arc .iyomcn, there should be on each training college staff one vice-principal who is a woman unless the-principal is a woman, and that some of the organising teachers be women (Wellington). That holidays for primary schools be. synchronised throughout the dominion ('Central Hawke’s (Say). That a quostionaire be submitted to a!! candidates before next General Election, such questionairo to_ require, among other things, a definite statement of the candidate’s attitude in regard to the introduction by_ the Department of Education of differentiation, irrespective of married allowance, between the salaries_ payable to male and female teachers in the same grade and position (Wellington).
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Evening Star, Issue 19023, 19 August 1925, Page 9
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