TEACHING STAFFS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 49, 27 January 1943, Page 2

TEACHING STAFFS

CHANGES ANNOUNCED

Numerous changes in teaching staffs were announced at a meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, yesterday, at which Mr E. F. Hemingway presided. Among them are the following.—Teachers leaving the board’s service: Mr F. E. Rockel, headmaster, Oroua Downs; Mrs F. M. Mortimer, sole teacher, Glyneath (war appointment); Mr T. J. Paul, sole teacher, Pohangina ; Miss I. W. Humphreys, assistant mistress, Hokowhitu; Mrs L. I. Davidson, assistant mistress, Ivopane; Mrs L. I. Hunter, assistant • mistress, Parewanui; Miss N. J. McKittrick, infant mistress, West End; Miss J. F. Wollerman, assistant mistress, Palmerston North Central. Appointments: Miss 0. M. Cooper, infant mistress, Oroua Downs; Mr W. R. McNab, sole teacher, Pohangina; Miss K. C. Chaney, assistant mistress, Palmerston North Central. War appointments: Miss L. M. Hunter, sole teacher, Utuwai; Miss R. Cunningham, assistant mistress, Palmerston North Central. Probationary assistants: Russell Street, Patricia M. F. Allwriglit; Hokowhitu, Madge Lynch; Lytton Street, Millicent A. Incc; Manchester Street, Joy S. Wither; College Street, Margaret A. Greenwood; Foxton D.H., Joyce Clarke, Shirley M. Summerfield; West End, Hazel Christensen, Beulah B. Meiklejohn; Terrace End, Dorothy Cargo, Jean E. Mugridgc; Palmerston North Central, Nola E. Bell, Jeane A. M. Dennan. Nominal appointments (all the following ex-students are in_ the Armed Forces); Lytton Street, Keith D. Gray; Manchester Street. Albert R. Tremain ; Russell Street, John D. O’Shea; Terrace End, George L. Seator.

The Education Department advised that a committee was being set up to go into the whole matter of the health proscription set out in the school syllabus and that sex education would be included. Other education boards sent letters commending the board on its efforts in the matter.

The department notified a grant for improvements to the school residence at Linton.

An additional subsidy of £lO for asphalting was granted the Central School Committee. „ t The department notified that a grant for swimming instruction would be available this 3’ear. Schools are invited to submit applications for grants towards the cost of conveying children for swimming instruction. _ The department advised that in future parents of children involved in accidents must take advantage of hospital and medical benefits under the Social Security Act. The department approved of a recommendation from the Terrace End Committee to revert the Kelvin Grove bus to the old route.