TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 7

TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE.

! At Xew Plymouth on Saturday, Mrs Dowling and Messrs Templer and Mo . Ilroy, on behalf of the Taranaki Teachers’ Institute, met Messrs Hine and Okey, M.P.’s., to lay before them the views of the teachers on matters likcj ly to be brought before Parliament | this year. The following questions '■ were touched on;—That consolidation | of schools should be carried out wher--1 ever possible; that the transfer expen- | ses of teachers be paid by the Depart- | ment; that junior scholarships should ! be abolished, and the money so saved j should be spent in paying lodging exi penses of those children who are highI est in the free place examination, and I who have to, live away from home in j order to attend secondary schools ; 1 the inauguration of a Council of Edi i cation, which under the control ol 1 Parliament, shall have the direction ol i. the educational policy and adminis- | tration ; that inspectors should be placj ed under the control of the Education j Department; an adequate scale o! ; salaries for teachers and inspectors, that salaries should not be based on attendance, but on efficiency and service; that the minimum salary should be £13.0, that no salary be reduced while a teacher is efficient, and that men be able to rise by annual increments to £260 and women to £180; that salaries of pupil teachers and probationers be raised to the level n those of cadets in the railway am post office; that the maximum salar;. be not . less than £500; a Dominic scheme 'for promotion; that superannuateion bo counted on. the bes three years, and not the last thrc years of service; that sick pay rogul; tions he made for the Dominion ; tha' schools'be set apart in each distric for the training of uncertificated ter. chers; that teachers’ dwellings be pro vided with modern conveniences; bhn■ an average attendance of 500 bo tin highest grade of school; that if tonumber of boards is to be reduced t< eight or nine, the Taranaki district b< extended so as to take in the whole of the Taranaki province. Messrs Hine and Okey gave a sym pathetic hearing to the deputation’ and promised their support during Uncoming session. Mr Wilkinson, M.P.. was not able to be present, but he will he interviewed by the Wanganui Dis trict Institute, and Mr Wilson, M.P for Taumarunui, has already been communicated with’ and has promised "Bis co-operation.