DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 May 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] N.Z.E.I. OFFICERS. WELLINGTON, May 12. The election of officers of the New Zealand Educational Institute resulted as follows: —President: Miss M. E. Magill (Wellington); Vic'e-Phesident: Mi-. F. C. Brew; Treasurer: Mr. C. Robertson; non-official ihembers of the Executive: Inside Wellington area: Messrs. O. A. Banner, T. Kane, R. McGlashan, J. H. M. Finlayson and Miss J. G. Park; outside Wellington area: Messrs. C. W. Boswell (Auckland), W. C. Colee (North Canterbury), G. F. Griffiths, F. E. L. Forrester, and Miss F. J. Taylor (Auckland). WOMEN TEACHERS. WELLINGTON, May 13. The annual meeting of the Women Teachers’ Association, was held' today, Miss E. Andrews presiding. Resolutions were passed that the Government grants to Kindergartens should be restored, and that Grade two assistants should be appointed to assist the infant mistress in every infant school with a roll of 120 or over, thus providing continuous avenue of promotion for infant teachers.

'Remits were passed that children should be enrolled at the beginning of the term in which they reach five years; that in view of the trend of modern eddeation every pressure should be brought to bear on 4he Department for immediate restoration of adequate school supplies, protest against the recently enacted intermediate school regulations on the following grounds, that these were neither in the best interests of children, nor according, to the best practice in modern systehis of education; that intermediate schools be restricted to two years’ course, that the regulations are inequitable and unjustifiable as regards the proposed staffing scale.

The question of superannuation is being considered in committee.