SCHOOL GIRLS' WELFARE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 17, 3 January 1920, Page 6

SCHOOL GIRLS' WELFARE.

SPECIAL MISTRESS REQUIRED. Wellington, Jan. 3. At the conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute to-day consideration was given to the position of women teachers. Miss A. E. Chaplin (Canterbury) introduced the remit: “That in any large school grade 5 and upward, the responsibilities of senior class mistress shal' include (1) special attention to health, morals and manners of girls; (2) general supervision and teaching of • a corrected course oi lessons in elementary physiology and hygiene; and (3) the general oversight of al] matters which specially affect the welfare of girls, such mistress to bare a status and salary equal to that of infant mistress. The main point made by the mover and by Miss M. Smith (Canterbury/ who seconded the motion, was that no one but a woman teacher was able to exert the steadying influence essential to the future welfare of girls and that special subjects eouid only be taught to girls by a woman teacher. After discussion, Mr. Garry (Hawke’s Bay) moved that “senior .class mistress” be amended to read :*.’class mistresses” and that the words after “the welfare of girls” be deleted. In this form the motion was carried.