NELSON TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

Colonist, Volume XXVI, Issue 3480, 13 June 1882, Page 3

NELSON TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

The twelfth annual meeting of the Association was held in the Education Board Boom, Nelson, on Saturday, June 3rd. 7 The President haying, taken the chair, briefly reviewed the proceedings ,of the' Association from its formation,, and congratulated the members upon the work of the last year, which had been most satisfactory, the number of "members having been greater - than' for some time past; the attendance at meetings had: throughou|i been better, and the various papers read anil subjects discussad had been both useful and interesting. Ho then called upon the Secretary to read jtlie statement of accounts, which showed it he Association to be in a satisfactory financial condition:; <• ■■ ' '■.■'>"■' '■■'■ ■■ ; : :,,-"-'- ■ The' election- of officers, for ;the ensuing year then took- place, with the following result -—President,. J. B. :Sadd ; (re;electecl); Members.of Committee, Mrs:T. Scott, Mis-. Gascoigno, Messrs , J. (; Hodgson,, W. LacUey,

O.j eiiepmnil, I?!.! Worley ;•• the Committed t6 elect their own-Secretary and Treasurer. ■■-''- f. The following resolufcio?'B rwa^ passed :-f That a letter bo forwarded by the Committee o the Nelson .momberSu'Boliciting theiiinterest in urging upon the House that a special sum be placed upon the estimates to return to the teachers the amount taken from them by the'ten per cent reduction. ■■•; • In accordance with the general wish of the Association, a motion was passed,;'';TJiat this Association deeply feels the loss thecaus'o of education hds sustained by the-c(ea)h of Mr Malcolm, and' desires to express! its condolence with Mrs Malcolm and family on their sad bereavement, and that a letter to that effectbe forwarded." / - ' v '; A discussipn then follpwqd upon a motion made at the previous' meeting ihat " House lessons" be the next, subject considered. The President read; extracts from Inspector Petries' report upon'-the schools in Otago, ■which so entirely coincided^ with his own views upon the subject that, he had, really nothing to add. j After considerable discussion the general opinion expressed was. against home lessons being made a burden, but that some were necessary. ". • The hour being late, a motion before the Association respecting holidays was unavoidably postponed until th 6 next' meeting.— Communicated.