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REGULATIONS REGARDING APPEALS. - (Pee United Peess Association.) WELLINGTON, June 23. Regulations were gazetted to-night in respect of appeals by teachers against their classification or grading, and provide that appeals must be made not later than 31 clear days after the publication of the grading list in the Gazette. All appeals not afterwards withdrawn will be sent to an appeal board consisting of a chairman (appointed by the Minister of Education)"; a representative of the Education Department (not a classifying or grading officer), and a representative appointed for a three-year period by the Secondary Schools’ Assistant Teachers’ Association, the Technical School Teachers’ Association, or the New Zealand Educational Institute, as the case may be. The first two associations named are to elect two representatives each, and the Educational Institute four representatives (two for the North Island and two for the South), who are by mutual arrangement to sit on the board In tufn._ The board is to consider appeals .only with respect to definite grounds stated in each appeal. An appellant may conduct his own case of be represented by an advocate (not a solicitor). He may be called as witness by his advocate, and may arrange for the attendance of any witness willing to appear on his behalf. Classifying or grading officers (or their representative) must be present at each appeal, and may give evidence on behalf of the Director of Education in support of the classification or grading. No evidence is to be heard except in the presence of the appellant or his advocate, and the resulting change in grading < is to be notified in the , Gazette. The chairman _of the board is to receive such remuneration and allowances as the Minister may approve, and, subject to the Minister’s approval, teachers’ representatives are to receive actual reasonable expenses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18280, 24 June 1921, Page 6
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