MULTIPLICATION OR SCHOOLS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13410, 7 May 1912, Page 6

MULTIPLICATION OR SCHOOLS.

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m Timam, May 5./ Tiie Teachers' Institute to-day decided t-o start a crusade for a minimum saliry of £150 for sole teachers of small schools and for a cessation of the multiplication of small schools by tho substitution'of a conveyance system. The large, nvmber of email schools was one of the reasons "•hy salaries vorp kept down, and the result was iue-mciency. Tho total cost na s gmitor and tliore was loss return ior the money expended. The crusade is t-o take tlie form of interne wing Ministers, oonferences, membors of Parliament and -the like. The present system was characterised as a disgrace to the country. The- conveyance of children is states to have been such a success in Victoria that 300 sma/1 schools have oe-eti closed thero since the conveyance system was adopted.