UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS

Northern Advocate, 24 January 1929, Page 8

UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER

SUGGESTION TO BE CONSIDERED,

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,

One hundred ex-students of the Christchurch Training College are out of employment, and some have never had employment. In making the statement to the Minister of Education, Mr E, H, Andrews, a member of the Canterbury Education Board, said it was felt that as they had signed a bond, the men for five years and the women for three years, something should be done for them. It; was felt they could bo distributed at a training salary round the largo city schools, in which there were very large classes, and round the country schools in which the classes had grown big enough to placs the school on the border line of needing another teacher. These positions could be created as further training positions and held l until the students could gain permanent employment. The Minister (the Hon. H. Atmorc) said if the scheme suggested by Mr Andrews was carried out it would mean an expenditure of £BSOO for the Canterbury unemployed ex-students alone. There wore three other training colleges, so that the cost presumably would bo over £30,000 a year. (Students gradually became absorbed and, although for many of them therewas no immediate prospect at the beginning of the year, it must bo remembered they had been trained for a profession. However, he would give the question consideration.