TEACHERS APPOINTED

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1932, Page 9

TEACHERS APPOINTED

TARANAKI ; DISTRICT SCHOOLS - — ■'’- ; ' ' 1460 APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. EDUCATION BOARD’S SELECTION. Appointments to. 26 schools in the nakl Education Board’s district for the opening of the school's next year were , made at a meeting of the board at New Plymouth last night There were present S. G. Smith, M.P. (chairman), J. C. Barclay, J. A. Valentine, W. H. Jones* J. McAllister, H. Dempsey and W. o. Glasgow and Dr. W. M. Thomson. ; For the'2B vacant positions there were 1448 applications; some positions? drawing over 100 applicants. "All the’ details had to be checked and tabulated and then the names were “thinned out” to a final half-dozen for consideration. The chairman mentioned that the try was going through .a difficult, period, there was an army of rationed workers, • an army of camp workers, and an ever-, . growing army of boys and girls coming , out of school and work. The . unemployment question was a serious I matter for all public bodies. In Taranaki , the depression had not been felt, quite so [ seriously as in the sheep districts, where in many cases the farmer had not been j able to sell his wool for two years. • ' Subject to the approval of the school E committees the following teachers wereselected for appointment: — ‘ Mangahume, sole teacher, grade 1: Keith Henderson (transferred from Whareorino). ■’ ' / ; ■ *' Whareorino, sole teacher, ■ grade. 1: Mr. J. Proctor (transfer from Omona). ■ Kaimiro, head teacher, grade 3a: MiM Gladys Bayly. ’ Oakura, head teacher, grade 3a; Mr. Harry H. Tills. -.. Ratapiko, head, teacher, grade 3a;, Mr. John Burt. Newall, sole teacher, ’ grade 2: Mim . Margaretta K. Hickey. • • Rowan, sole teacher, grade 2: Miss Mary Bruce. , „ Te Popo, sole teacher, grade 2: Miss Alice J. Pennail. ’ . Aorangi, sole teacher, grade 0: Miss Ethel G. Ellis. ■ n : - Kaipikari, sole teacher, grade 0: Miss Hazel Phillips. , ; •' Makahu, sole teacher, grade 0: Vera E. Sadd. _ • Waitaanga, sole teacher,-grade 0: Mr. Donald McMurray. •’ -u* West End, assistant-master, grade 2: Mr. Alfred B. Barns. / Vogeltown, infant mistress: Miss Dona M. Lucas. .. . • Bell Block, grade 3c, infant mistress. Miss Gladys M. Brooker. Bell Block, assistant-mistress, grade 1: Miss Rebecca Taylor. _ Carrington, grade 3a, assistant: Miss : Gwendoline Godfrey. •ifj-’-’i.-Eltham, grade 6a, assistant-miMress: Miss Margaret A. Thompson. Kaimiro, grade 3a, assistant mistress: Miss Marjorie Holdsworth. ; ' . , Oakura, grade 3a, assistant mistress. Miss Cicely Greatbatch. Ongarue, grade 3c, assistant mistress. Miss Ada A. Fryer. ... Raekohua, grade 3c, infant mistress.

Miss Mary F. Wilson/ Raekohua, 3c, assistant mistress, grade 1: Miss Hazel Harkness. . j.. ; , Stanley, 3a, assistant mistress: Miss Kathleen Thomas. , . ■ . ■ . Te Kiri, 3a, assistant mistress: Miss Iris Tarrant. Urenui, 3a, assistant mistress: Miss Linda G.’ Wooldridge. 1 Appointments to Kiritehere, grade 1* of a sole teacher, and to Inglewood, grade 2, of an infant mistress have not been made. ‘ There are no indications yet of what probationary assistant appointments will be made, although it is known no probationers will be appointed. It is probable, however, that the ration system will be adopted and in that case many more teachers can be given employment than would be the case werfe the. scheme not adopted. The department has indicated that the Government does not propose to make any “profit” on the rationing scheme. < ....... :