WOMEN TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19940, 8 May 1928, Page 12

WOMEN TEACHERS.

Sir, —Your correspondent "Observer' does me the injustice of accusing me of making "a most unjustifiable attack on the unfortunate unemployed teachers by implying that they are 'more or less' a lot of untried aspirants," and adds "this statement is a direct misrepresentation oi the facts." In order to make this charge ha has had to draw on his imagination for his material, since neither the objectionable inference that he refers to noi the quotation, "more or less," nor yc the "direct misrepresentation of facts" are to be found anywhere in my letter, and, further, it contains nothing directly or indirectly in the nature of an attack on teachers or anyone else. Had he been the "close observer" that he claims to be. and had he read a little more carefully and intelligently what I did write,' i! might have saved him from making such an unfounded and ridiculous charge as he has seen fit to make. "Fair Play's" contention that need, and not merit, should be the determining factor in. the appointment of teachers, and his plea that all married women teachers should bo replaced by single women quite justified me in pointing out the obvious fact.that under such a system some of the girls chosen might possibly be, as yet, untried Justice.