AGRCULTURAL EDUCATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 6 June 1919, Page 7

AGRCULTURAL EDUCATION.

PAYMENT OP INSTRUCTORS

iBY TELEGRAPH —P-CESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, June 6. At the Agricultural Education Conference, the question of capitation waV | ■discussed. It was generally considered '■ unsatisfactory. Th:> Director of Edu- I cation said that the matter had been under consideration for some time. Personally he disliked the capitation scheme. He thought the time had arrived for the substitution of a scheme by which lump sums should be paid to an Education Board for the payment of the salaries of instructors, which would mean a grading scheme for such officers. He did not favor the Department taking over the control and appointment of officers. In regard! to material he favored the Department distributing on requisition. A resolution was carried to the effect that a desirable scale of salaries should. T)e drawn up by the Department and "the money required paid to education boards.