TEACHERS' SUMMER SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 13

TEACHERS' SUMMER SCHOOL.

AUCKLAND. January 24,

This morning hie Excellency the Governor paid a vi- it to the Normal School to fee +he teacheis ai work who are attei-dins? the summer -chcol in agriculture and Nature ttudj under Mr V. 3V- Jackson, 8.A., and ihe •=unimer fthool in handiwoik under Mrs^is Haiiy Wal'ace and 11.I 1 . C. -I. CoAburn. UpnarcVs of 50 teacher, aie atrendin(? the cla«=sc->. s>hmg up a portion °' their holidays in older to receive instruction which, will better fit them to teach agriculture and hanrlivvoik in their schools.

Hi= Excellency, who vva« received by the chairman of the board (Mr Bagnall) and Ihe clnector of technical education (Mr George George), expressed himself in terms of high appreciation of the Gaerifice made by the teachers in giving up their holidays in order to better equip themselves for teaching. He hoped that one result of this sacrifice would be that they would be better able to train the pupils in the" country schools for & country life, so that the

modern tendency of migrating fiom th« country to the towns would be discouraged as far as they were concerned.

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