THE TEACHERS' CLASSES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13108, 23 June 1913, Page 4

THE TEACHERS' CLASSES.

_ PHYSICAL CULTURE. The \ teachers who returned fror Napier on Saturday evening! speak ver feighly of the value of the classes a which they attended. The work wa very 'strenuous, and 1 was vigorous! maintained. Mr, Royd Garlick, the head Govern nwht instructoi-j who was recently ii Napiet ir^ connection with the school a instruction for teachers) lias furhishei the following report on the work :- ""There are in Hawke's Bay sixty-si: men teachers and sixty -two womei teachers under training, representing 12« schools in the ' Hawke's Bay "district These teachers are receiving lnstcructioj from the." stajff, consisting of two ladie and two men, who themselves have beei trained by myself. The teachers them selves „a re.( keen, and enthusiastic, am the Education Board is'sorry that it di< not get all the teachers together, bu of course, we can't deal with more thai the number under training;— l2o— at th present time..: 1 anvaisQ_ informed tha several ■ of the teachers" who were no originally selected to, corne to the train ingjare disappointed, and have expresses their desire to come out. "The work of training the teachers tc drill/ and train therchildren is being oar ried out by .districts,, and arrangement; have' already Wen made to take in hano the teuchers.of Auckland and Southland Since there &t^ 640 teachers to be'trained in the northern district, this part ol the work is expected- to- occupy eight weeks, and it will 'be pctober, before the inspectors have finished with South land. Other education boards, including Wellington, are' negotiating, and periods' "of. -training have -to be arranged to suit the convenience of both sides." The instructor mentioned that 120 to 13C teachers, could be trained every fortnight. SOCIAL GATHERING. A very pleasant social gathering, took Slace in St. Paul's, schoolroom -on Thursay afternoon, when '.'. the lady teachers who have been attending the cousre of instruction in physical culture during the past two weeks- entertained the male teacners, together with the instructors of both iseetions, .at afternoon tea. , The '.Mayer, Mr J,. '."V. Brown, M.P., presided," and irt" the course of a short address, ill which he heartily welcomed the teachers^ tq Napier, 'said that no one who had, witnessed the exercises performed ;by the teachers during the continuation of -the clashes could fail .'to be impressed with. a*'serise of the benefits likely to be derived froinVucH exercises, and he hoped* to see: the teachers here again nex% year for another ' " similar period of instruction. - \ Durijiig the afternoon ' presentations were made to each of the instructors. The twptjady instructors, Misses Larsen and Heritage, were each presented-, with floral' designs. Miss Faubert made . the presentations, and expressed the appreciationof '. the" ladies' classes r at. the manner in which the- instructors had carried out tieir.-wqrk. Misp Heritage, replied for bdfh instructors. The male classes also niSSe' Presentations 'to their instructors. Sergeant-Major Just, in charge of Squad B>;was. presented by . the members of that squad with . a „ handsome silver hot-water jug, "fiaryey making the presentation and the incipient suitably responding: 'Sijuad' A ■■'■ presented their instructor,- Sergeant-Major Jack Johnson, with" 4 a wristlet . watch.' Mr S. B. Curd, who made the presentation, said the instructor would no doubt consider this Was intended as a gentle re-minder,-of the '■' 'marking time" which the squad, had been doing in their'exercises. 'This' 'was far from the intentions of the 1 donors) however, who wished to show their:' appreciation of the "good ttime" they ihadvspent .with their instructor, and. he hoped the vwlch would keep always such "good time,'- and' would not go too fast); for tliey had experienced during the 'past -Wo weeks tire truth of the adage tihat-. it • was . the pace which ki11ed.,. . , : gjergeant-Major Johnson humorously'thapked. the donors for the handson^ '^iftV remarking that' he was pleased tb 'find that his exercises had been so well watched.