SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS
IN COUNTY AREAS.
AUCKLAND MARRIED WOMEN
ENGAGED
[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, May 18.
During the next two terms, the Auckland Education Board will face the most acute shortage of teachers that it has yet experienced. The Board has called applications for over fifty positions, without much result; and it was stated at to-day’s meeting that about one hundred teachers will be required to fill relieving positions in the country.
It was also stated that the closing down of the Teachers’ Training Colleges during the depression period had left a serious gap, and that girls are now disinclined to take up teaching, they preferring commercial positions, and they are also disinclined to leave their homes for the country. As a result, many of the vacant positions are being filled by married women teachers, many of whom had previously retired.
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Grey River Argus, 19 May 1938, Page 7
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