TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1920, Page 5

TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.

GREY BRANCH MEETING

A meeting of the Grey Branch of the N.Z.E.f. was held in the Tr'nity Club Rooms on Saturday, the President (Mr. J. F. Wilson) presiding over a very fair attendance of members. The matter of Auckland forming a separate Teachers’ Association was discussed at some length and the Allowing motion was carried: “That this branch of the N.Z.E.I. regrets the action of the Auckland teachers in forming a separate Teachers’ Association in addition to that of the N.Z. E. 1., as it is considered that; such action is a retrograde step which may tend towards disunion rather than unity amongst the teachers of the Dominion.’'

The W.E.A. movement which is being inaugurated in Greymouth was brought before the meeting by the chairman and it was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that such a splndid educational movement deserved all the support the teachtrs could give it. In the event of a local council of the W.E.A. being formed, is was resolved that the Grey Branch <o£ the N.Z.E.I. should be represented on it.

The sub-committee appointed to deal with the memorial to the la’e Inspector Scott reported to the meeting that it considered that the memorial should take the form of a tablet to be erected in some suitable podtu n. The meeting adopted this suggestion and considered that the entrance hall of the D.H.S. would he the most suitable place iu which to place the tablet, as it was in the Grey district . at the late Mr. Scott put in many years of his life as a teacher and an inspector. Messrs AlPson and Wilson were appointed a sub committee to obtain permission from the educational authorities to have the tablet placed in position, and to inquir- into the purchase of a suitable tablet, \if the necessary permission is granted. The offer of the President to give a paper on “Education in its Relation to Citizenship” to the next meeting to b n held on September 4th was accepted with thanks.

The sub-committee appointed to interview the West Coast ALP.’s regarding t’ne viewpoint of the teachers on the proposed Education Bill, reported bavin" interviewed Messrs Sodden and Holland personally, and that a letter had been written to Air. Hudson. The three members had expressed the : r sympathy with the views of the N.Z.E.1., and promised to do their best to make the new Bill satisfactory to the general body of teachers before it was placed on tho Statute Book.