MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14391, 9 June 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

TEACHERS' APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Robert Macduff, B-Sc, E.M., formerly director of the Karangahake School of Mines, was appointed on six months' trial;as mathematical master to the Auckland;Tech-j j nical College. There were I<£ applicants for the position. ■; t The following .resignations were received: —Mr. J. s Hogwood, s headmaster, Avondale; Mrs. J. Carter,; 'assistant,"* Hamilton ; West 5* and Miss E.E. Dunn, teacher, Pakanae. The i Teachers; Selection Committee recommended the following appointments, which were authorised :—H.* A. * Darrow, headmaster, Avondale; H. W. Lawtoh, teacher, Oturoa;. R. L. Hoey, teacher, -AkaJAka;' Miss M. Maxwell, teacher, Riverhead; Miss F. T.' S.- Adcock, ■ temporary charge, Koutu; Miss M. .M. S. Vincent, teacher, Ruakiwi -." aided'/school ; Miss'M» C. M. Yarborough, assistant, Kohukohu; Miss L. - Schofield.'-;as-sistant, iHamilton - West District High School; W. C. Chipchase/ from Herekirio, N to temporary charge of Te Arai Schools Miss E. E. Tills, from . Epsom to temporary charge of Pakanae ; school; : ; O. '■■- J. ( Pmlpot, ; . pupilteacher, Ponsonby;. Miss E. J. Salmon, pupil-teacher,;Ponsonby; H. G. Johnston, pupil-teacher, Newmarket. ; The Salvation Army asked permission to address; children " ! . in ? the i schools■: on the 'evils of smoking and •gambling.; .The chairman said he , had (great / sympathy ' for the social work the ; Salvation Army was doing, and did not [approve the cheap sneers that were often cast on the Army's methods, but he felt( that, after * the stand; the Board had taken f.ihi regard (to;( the Nelson ( system (of religious (instruction, they ,/ could not make any distinctions. The request was declined. The chairman j and Mr. Greenslade .. were appointed» delegates 'to;;" attend , the - annual conference of (Education Boards at Wellington. ;/ In the report of the ; chairman ... and executive mention was made that the chief inspector's report ;on the question of '. issuing j free : railway passes to children attending Ellerslie school was considered. - It; was recommended that ; the S issue Sof /?, free ( railway passes /to enable children to 'attend the/Ellerslie school be t restricted(.-'. to the (/;following,, cases/- : Children ( under 10 years living over a mile from school;-: (2) 'all- children living on the Great South Road south of Penrose station ; •aid ; (3) all children > living on the, Mount Smart-Penroao I Station; Road. , ;x: On / the motion of ■ Mr. Garland, the Board expressed ' itself ,as desirous of . encouraging the observance of Arbor Day by school children.