MARRIED WOMEN AS. TEACHERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 896, 3 May 1889, Page 27

MARRIED WOMEN AS. TEACHERS.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, April 26. Tho question in di-pute between ths Ponsonby School Committee and the Board of Education in regard to the termination of the engagement of the head teacher of the Richmond - road School, Mrs Rooney, for family reasons, was discussed by the Board to-day. A letter was read in which the Committee, whilst re-

framing from expressing an opinion a 3 to the wisdom or otherwise of dismissing married ladies who had become nursing mothers, urged that such policy should not be brought into operation in individual cases without due notice from the Board, and that a year’s notice of a rule of this kind was necessary. After a general discussion it was resolved that Airs Rooney's case be treated as an exceptional one, but that in future married female teachers should retire from school duties for two months before their confinement and two months afterward, without pay. The resolution previously passed to dismiss Mrs Rooney was therefore rescinded.

SAMOAN NEWS

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, April 26. The steamer Mawhera arrived from Tongs and Samoa to-day, bringing advices from Apia to the 17th inst. Alatters political are quiet, and everybody is awaiting the result of the Berlin conference. Mataafa is in Apia. His men assisted to float the German ship Olga, although the proclamation of war against him had not been withdrawn. Business in Apia is very brisk. This is consequent on the large expenditure by the American sailors. Supplies of all kinds were plentiful, and the arrival of the Mawhera and Richmond and other vessels due would prevent any scarcity. The harbour of Apia shows numerous traces of the effects of the hurricane. On a reef the Adler is lying, on her broadside, with her decks facing the shore. She is not seriously damaged, and could be floated off if the necessary appliances were at hand. The United States ships Trenton and Vandalia are lying side by side as they sank, and there is no chance of floating either of them. With the assistance of a divingdress, lent from H.M.S. Calliope, the majority of the guns and stores were brought up from these vessels. The remains of the Eber are scattered about, the larger portion being under the reef where she sank. Very few bodies have come ashore, and native divers say that a great many are entangled in the wreck. They have declined to work in recovering the bodies of those lost in the Eber, as they assert that the locality of the wreck is infested with sharks. The Nipsic, which was successfully floated, was fitted with a jury rudder and arrangements were made with the Mawhera to convey her to Auckland for repairs. On the trial trip, however, the machinery broke down and the Alawhera towed her back to port. As she could not be got ready again for at least a week the Mawhera came on without her. Admiral Kimberley intends sending the Nipsic to Auckland in charge of the United States ship Alert, which was expected to arrive from Honolulu about tha end of April. H.AI.S. Rapid arrived at Apia, via Fiji, on Monday, the loth. Thu American sailors from the wrecked warships are quartered on shore, anxiously waiting for vessels to take them to America. Diarrhoea and dysentery were becoming prevalent at the time of the Alawliera's departure, and about seventy men were ill from these causes. Very good order prevails* a result due to the strict discipline en. forced by the Admiral and his officers. The American sailors are not allowed to visit tha German end of the town, and a sentry has been placed on the bridge. A German guard of about 70 men is stationed in the stores of the German firm.