ENGAGEMENT OF TEACHERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 36

ENGAGEMENT OF TEACHERS.

OF BOARD'S POWERS. WELLINGTON, November 14. A ca4e of great importance and interest to the Education Boards and public •cheol teachers of Xew Zealand was decided by Judge Edwards in the Supreme Court yesterday, when he delivered judgment in the test case New Zealand Educational Institute versus the Marlborou^h Education Boaad. The defendant board In recent years adopted a system of engaging its teachers from year to year, and only on these terms . and the action was j brought by the institute to ascertain if J such a system were in accordance with i statutory legislation. It wajs contended, jon behalf of the defendant board, that ; the matter was one of contract,' and* i that the engagement expired by effluxion i of time, and not by dismissal as sueI gested. ° The court held that the system of the Marlborough Board was a breach of the '< Education Act, and beyond the pever and authority of the board, on the grounds that by the system the provisions as to ! appeal, consultation with the committee ugon termination of teachers' engagements, and superannuation scheme, which ! I provisions are statutory rights conferred ! upon teachers and committees, are I ignored and rendered inapplicable, if the -j syfctem is effective, to teachers employed j by the defendant board. ' — Bread is baked by electricity in a bakery at Kerns, Switzerland. The oven I is about Bft long and 4ffc wide, with a ) heating surface of more than 30 square feet. It takes a batch of about 1001b of bread in 21b or 3ib loaves. The time employed for baking each batch,- including charging and emptying, is about an hour and a-half. In 12 hours, therefore, 800Lb of bread can be baked. — The United Kingdom manufactures 260,000 tons of soap jearly. |