PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 5

PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

GISBORNE NOT LIKED ISOLATION ALLEGED Because there are many school teachers who imagine that Gisborne is an isolated town difficult of access, many, ot the primary school teachers will not apply for positions in that district, ffho matter was mentioned at the Hawke’s Bay Education Board’s meeting yesterday, when it was stated that many ot tho teachers holding positions in schools throughout the Hawke’s Bay education district were graded very much lower than teachers holding similar positions in other school districts. While tho position hold good generally in tho district it was more particularly applicable to the schools in the northern ward, in Poverty Bay. Mr. J. S. Wauchop said that it was astonishing to think that there were still many people who wore apt to regard Gisborne as an isolated town, when in actual fact there were many more services leaving here daily than could ever be given on a railway sendee. Tho motor services had been developed to such an extent that Gisborne’s isolation was absolutely a thing of tho past, and the fact- that it was possible to get. light through from Wellington to Gisborne in the one day wa.s surely sufficient. to dispel these groundless rumors, lfe considered! that something should bo done to combat the statements that were continually being made about the isolation of tho town. If teachers in outside districts really understood the position they would realise that, there were many advantages attached to living in this district.. He suggested that some particulars should bo regularly, stated in the Educational Gazette so na to dear away the misapprehensions; Other members supported Mr. Wauehop’.s contentions, and affirmed that. Gisborne was by no means an isolated town. Tt was pointed out. that there were, young teachers in senior positions’ who, because they had gone straight from training college to these positions, would not be promoted for many years. After further discussion it was left to the chief inspector and the secretary to sec whether some, method' of dispelling the ideas of isolation could be evolved.