TEACHERS AND THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 6

TEACHERS AND THE WAR.

PATRIOTIC DONATIONS.

The contribution to the Provincial Patriotic Fund by the school teachers of the Auckland district, who are regularly devoting 2J per cent, of their salaries to' the purpose, is very substantial. Up to date it has provided £3341 for the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Fund, and £862 for the Belgian Belief Fund, and at yesterday's meeting of the branch of the Educational Institute it was reported that a sum of £1084 was orf deposit in the bank, awaiting an instruction from the branch as to how it should be appropriated. The matter was discussed at some length, upon a motion by Mr. C. R. Munro that of the £1084 a sum of £100 he voted to the Russian Relief Fund, £100 to the Servian Relief Fund, and £100 to the French Relief Fund, and that the balance be paid over to the! Patriotic and War Relief Association, to be applied in the same way as other moneys voted by the institute early in the war, viz., one-half for the relief of local distress arising out of the war, and the other half for patriotic purposes. An, amendment moved by Mr. D. W. McNaughton, in favour of retaining the money in the institute's bank account, in order that it might •be used for the assistance of teachers who might return from the front wounded or invalided, was negatived, the feeling being expressed that such teachers would have greater certainty of assistance being available for them from the Patriotic Fund than from any merely sectional fund that might be established. Mr. Munro's motion was adopted.