COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 September 1913, Page 4

COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

A SOUTHLAND PROTEST

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION

INVERCARGILL, Sept. 6. In the course of a retiring address at the meeting of the Education Board yesterday, Mi- John Fisher (chairman) referred to the strong determination in the country districts to have primary schools established in their districts, iii preference to allowing children to travel to schools distant from their Board. The Board would have to face a demand for an increasing number of small schools for many years yet. The provision of teachers for these schools was also a matter of difficulty, and more men and women of an educational status would have to be induced to enter the service and remain in it. The Board's regulations to improve the classification of young teachers had resulted in a- negative success only, some of those teachers being animated more by fear of expulsion or reduction in status rather than in a determination to excel. He attributed the present position to inadequacy of the salaries paid, the uncertainty of the regular advancement for meritorious work, and the uncertainty of promotion. Mr Fisher was re-elected chairman of the Board.