WOMEN TEACHERS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVV, Issue 18, 25 January 1927, Page 5

WOMEN TEACHERS

MARRIED OR SINGLE. -NELSON, Monday. The principle of giving- preference in the appointment of teachers to single women as against married women was confirmed at the Nelson Education-. Board meeting to-day. The question arose when the appointing of a teacher for a special class for backward children was under discussion. - : The board \had sent a list of applicants to the department, who forwarded two names for selection, a married woman being placer]- first and a' smelo woman second. Mr Scnntlehurv movml that the svpn-lo woman be appointed. The Hon. W. H. McJntvre, said flint t'ifl children should be considered, and he moved an amendment that the married woman be annotated. On a show of hands, the amendment was lost, onlv the mover and Mr Marris sunnorting it. Tho chairman did not vote;