SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 August 1925, Page 5

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

ASSISTANT TEACHERS CONFER. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION, WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. A conference o-f the Secondary Schools Association of New Zealand is being held to-day, Mr 11. B. Tomlinson presiding. Thirty delegates, were present. The value of the Education Bill of 1924, giving the power of disciplining members, was appreciated in the annual report, which, after dealing with salaries, regretted that no further progress had been made in the matter of superannuation. There had been only one disagreement during the year between teachers and their board. Gratification was expressed that the Department had agreed, under abnormal conditions, to safeguard: the interests of all teachers where a reduction in grade was threatened bwiug to the fall in numbers in a school. The report ..referred to . .the matriculation examination as unsatisfactory. There "Was an unevenness in the nature of the papers and discrepancies In the marks allotted. Matriculation dominated to quite an uncalled-for extent -almost the whole of the secondary school curriculum.

The following officers were elected: J. A. Colquhoun (Palmerston North), president; Miss K. V. Edgerley, vicepresident. North Island representatives on the executive are: A. R. Gatland (Auckland), A. G. Johnson (New Plymouth); South Island representatives,- W. M. Stewart (Christchurch), C. M. Littlejohn (Waitaki). Wellington representatives are: A. S. Farquhar and Miss Hind. Officers for Secondary Schools’ Association are: Vice-presi-dent (Miss Edgerley) and three members of the Association, council consists of Miss Hind and Messrs Colquhoun and Chisholm.