INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15223, 22 May 1920, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, received from the Prince m his own handwriting, a feeling farewell to the young people who were so enthusiastic m giving him a welcome to the Dominion. The message -will be published m the School Journal for- June, and will be read m all schools simultaneously on Monday week. STRATFORD, this day. The first united conference of Taranaki members of Parliament for 14 years was held at Stratford. It was held to discuss the most urgent needs of the provin.ee. It was unanimously decided to urge the Government to push on the eaily completion of the Stratford-Okahu-kura and Teroti-Moturoa lines, re-open the Mt. Egmont quarries, and bridge the Mokau river. WELLINGTON, this day. Mr T. S. Ronaldson, assistant public trustee, has retired. He joined the office m 1883. He was well known m athletic circles.

The annual conference of the Secondary Schools' Assistants' Association opened to-day. The president, Mi. J. Drummond, , m ah address, said that secondary education had not hitherto received, thejconsider^o,n. ; duetto it as a.E intermediate between primary and : university education. 'Many '-University graduates now took up teaching simply as a* stepping stone to other professions, and the profession was becoming less and less popular. A Dominion scheme of salaries was urgently needed, and itwas desirable that increments should depend upon reasonable conditions as to efficiency. Teachers had been mticised for talking so much of salaries, but m. reply to this he pointed out that until i satisfifcd' band of teachers was assured the best results would not be achieved m education m New Zealand. Therefore the association felt it necessary to secure a standard of salaries which would bring content, and induce the best men and women to enter the service.