SCHOOL TEACHERS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14024, 16 January 1918, Page 4

SCHOOL TEACHERS.

•k:V,::;;:,r^:ORI!i!I()lsib I^ti: ■:■.■'.'■;;/■. .. v -"" ■' ' ; '''■'' ''' ; -nP^ ichndKteachers by the lodal; Edlts?!< have of late, bedh se;4fl£ much public complt,iht of the Teachers \ Institute, tdio hliii vocated appointment front tors'.grading list, and a io tli€ coinplaihts was made at /ye'sterda'i .meeting 'of the Canterbury Educa'ti mattor \yas bxfoiighf 'dpi a'; letterj from the; "Westland"BfaScHi fJieJeachMs' Institute, or w3 resolutions:— .•':.*• ■ : --' r y~',l"T/X\, ■ V ..y' L*Wging jthat;the hOardg^i ~. niaJmig''appointments, Jiould^afc '"; the /recommendations" oflhc unlj)' j tors.; ; '■'■■;•-,],■, :'.V*./^sm :■!•■: f i. publication; ||i tracts,' etc'./ from ■■ inspectors', repb j } and ' '■-■:■:. ■.. i, :■, ,;' .■•;"^v ; 3. Protesting against the,im^|||r ■ which,. Canterbury ':tea6her9';hafn| the matter of 'sick Jaf' 'Mr W. : M. Hamilton moved';tßst?t letter be received.' He thought it/ti: that the board; should reply ft the : ma insinuations made against thern." If-'t board were to be * charged". 'mfli'.'inip: priety in appointments, the teachers^ their 'remedy in their ovfff : #ourt Wi peal, and the idea of suggesting-by/. sinuation that there had,been imp priety was-what he took exception; It was.an intolerable p6sitioh.\Th) .was a great ■ in ' fhis'.'pfe^ movement,' There were certain "fea'cfc who wanted to take away tKeVp^er appointments' from the boariiandj •gratle'it'into a mere, eominittp.ft.f9rj administration of funds—in.othir!wor practically to do ■ away.; with bbpeis'; together, which he considered am undesirable It seemed to hini'tl there were'Sindications that • the VCi 'Service .as.a whole were trying to.m? 'a the country altogether; that were so, then there was annuel democracy, which would give place bureaucracy, : as in Germany. /■■■',. ' Mr C.,.S..Howard expressed,the.op 1 ion Jthati board would- be 'false 1 the position in which they had'be placed, by the people .were they' to';: low themselves to be dictatedSttr.in'H manner indicated by the teattersi. The motion was agreed t0.,;; ■;:;;::