TEACHING OF GIRLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1714, 3 January 1920, Page 6

TEACHING OF GIRLS.

. .', ._ i» i" ■ ... . . NECESSITY FOR WOMEN TEACHERS.

Per Press Association. •■'■ WELLINGTON, Jan. 3!.. At. the eonfereiicejof tho New Zealand Educational Institute to-day consideration, was given "to the position of women teach-.! ers. Miss A. C. Chaplin (Canterbury) introduced a remit: "That in every large school of grade 5, and. upwards, the. responsibilities of. the senior class mistress shall- include: (1) Special attention to health, morals and manners of the girls; (2) general supervision and teaching of a correlated course of lessons in elementary physiology and hygiene, and (3) tho general oversight of all matters which specially affect tho welfare of girls, such mistress to have a status and salary equal to that of an infant mistress." The main point made by the movei', and by Miss M. Smith (Canterbury), who seconded the motion", was that no one but a wfc-nAn teacher was able tfl exert the steadying influence essential to the future. WelfaVof girls, arid that special subjects could only be taught to girls by a woman toa \ C fter«a discussion, Mr Gar-ry (Hawke's Bav) moved : That "senior class mistress be fended to read "class and that the words after "the welfare of- girls lie deleted. . ." , ' In this form the motion was carried.