THE STAFF OF INSPECTORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15567, 26 March 1914, Page 9

THE STAFF OF INSPECTORS.

MR. PURDIE'S SCHEME,

FINANCE THE DIFFICULTY.

The scheme for the reorganisation of the staff of inspectors -working under the Auckland Education Board which was brought before a recent meeting by Mr. E. C. Purdie, and refeiTed to committee, was reported upon at the board meeting yesterday. .Mr. Purdie proposed a series of motions which were, in effect, that the Auckland education district be divided into three northern.' metropolitan and southern; that a senior inspector be placed in charge of each such area and that he be responsible for education therein; that each area be subdivided into a suitable number of sub-areas; that an inspector or a junior inspector be placed in charge of each and be held responsible for education therein; and that the chief inspector still direct and supervise the work of education throughout the whole education district. A scale of salaries in conformity with the "scheme was also proposed by Mr. Purdie. J

The proposals were considered in committee by the whole board and it reported yesterday that, while recognising the soundness of the principles involved in the proposals, the exigencies of finance rendered it impracticable for them to be carried into effect- - It was recommended that the question of adjusting the areas taken by the inspectors be referred to the chief inspector for his report and that the principle of placing upon inspectors the responsibility for education within each area, be affirmed. It was recommended that the proposed scale of salaries be not agreed to, but that applications be invited by advertisement for the appointment of an additional inspector of schools with salary at the rate of £400 a year with annual increments of £10 until a maximum of £450 has been reached. w2o a ut"dTuS,n. reportWaS •*** • On.the recommendation of the committee it was decided that the Minister for Education be informed that heboard was of opmion that, fa order to give inspector fafl discretion in managing their ownd™ tact, the regulation requiring the visit mth-not.ce of an inspector to each school at least once a year should be defied It was also decided to recommend to the Minister that the number «£;« S in the Act for the establishment oflena rate infant schools be reduced to 100 ?