UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18521, 4 October 1923, Page 8

UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS

MANY fDLE IN' ENGLAND,'' positions IN AUCKLAND, •country' 1 ;--. posts offered/' s A communication from . the Education.' I'/ Department.asking the board to consider VS the question" of inviting English teachers '"■■■' to .-'accept situations in Now Zealand ::.' V schools was received at a - meeting 'of th*. ■ ''/. Auckland Education "-Board yesterday. ft ■was/ stated that there are many highly, ' • qualified, unemployed teachers in tfas.' \ . United. Kingdom, who would willingly - emigrate to the Dominion of they could be assured of obtaining ~ positions. The - "'* department further , suggested, that th*'\ board might take steps to find employ. . ment • for a number .or English teachers,' ' 1 who had been partially disabled by was *V service.". ■> ■ % $§S The senior inspector advised the bbarS ;; that there would be no difficulty in secur- ijg ing posts for 30 or .40 teachers, hut re- ,- ■ commended that they should be placed : in country schools only. ' \ \ KOn the motion of the chairman, it was ; '; ■'- •resolved to : advise'the department that the board ; was J prepared to guarantee "''". positions to the stated number of certi-, ,'] Seated teachers. - •'*''}<

: On the suggestion of : Mr. T. U. '-Wells, • the board decided that the department * ! should be acquainted with the necessity ~\, for informing the English teachers of the ' § conditions obtaining! in the New Zealand ") country;: schools, ill A order that there ' •;, might be no misunderstanding in regard to the character of the situations offered " and the: limitation of scope. ' J |||