EDUCATION LEGISLATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 276, 10 November 1911, Page 3

EDUCATION LEGISLATION.

BOARDS SHOULD BE < <>\ SILTED.

A letter read at. the meet mg of the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday morn ing emit mined a suggest ion from the North C’anterbury Education Board lo the effect that

when additions to or alterations of ilie legislation affecting Education Boards an- contemplated, the Government should consult th" Boards and give them an opportunity of considering proposed amendments. The Southern body mentioned that the resolution was the outcome of a discussion that took place with regard to th" insertion of a clause in the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Bill, giving teachers power to appeal against their transfers from one school to another. The provisions of the Act relating to the transfer of teachers were already difficult, to put into operation. and the recent legislation, it was feared, would increase the trouble, because Education Boards, finding a readjustment of staffs necessary. would hesitate it a teacher proposed to be transferred could mil the Board to the expense and inconvenience of a legal action.

Discussing the letter, the cha'r'iiii’t (Mr. G. J. Garland) expresse 1 I’ne opinion that the Government should consult Education Boards in reference to contemplated amendments to legislation, hut so far as the transfer of teachers was concerned. the Auckland Board was. not affected, a more democratic system having been adopted. 11l the Auckland province evciy vacancy was filled by public advertisement, but the same "onditions did not exist under ot In r Boards.

Th" Board agreed to support l’< < 'ante’-bnry Board s suggest ton as ’• propose)i alterations of legislation.