A DOMINION GATHERING

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1935, Page 9

A DOMINION GATHERING

150 TEACHERS AT HIGH SCHOOL OPENING CEREMONY TO-NIGHT NOTABLE PANEL OF LECTURERS MORE that 150 school teachers from all over New Zealand are gathering at New Plymouth to-day for the 1935 Teachers’ Annual Summer School, now in its 11th year. The course will last from to-day until Thursday next 'week, and the students will be accommodated in the various buildings of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School boarding establishment. The school will be opened officially to-night at 8 o’clock in the Boys’ High School Assembly Hall, where all the lectures will be delivered. Mr. R. W. D Robertson will preside, and the Mayor (Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour) will officially welcome the speakers and students. Also on the platform will be the Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Education and member for New. Plymouth, Mr H R. Billing, chairman of the New Plymouth High Schools Board of Governors, Mr. A. Bain, senior inspector of schools for Taranaki, and Mr. N. T. Lambourne, Director of Education. Mr D M. Rae, president of the Summer School movement, will reply to the welcome. Members of local bodies have been invited to be present, and an invitation is extended by the executive to the general public. ’ The 'panel of seven lecturers is a distinguished one.. The cultural aspect rather than the merely educational viewpoint is being stressed, and the speakers are experts in the subjects with which they will be dealing. The leading men who have given their services include the following: Mr. D. M. Rae, M.A., F.R.Hist.S., Dip. Ed., Principal of the Auckland Teachers’ Training College: “Impressions following a Tour of the Educational World. Mr. Frank Milner, C.M.G., M.A., Principal of the Waitaki Boys’ High School: “The International Position—Recent Developments and Tendencies.’’ Professor W. A. Sewell, 8.A., B.Litt. (Oxon.), B.A. (Leeds), Professor of English at Auckland University: “The Theatre.” Mr. Johannes C. Andersen, Librarian to the Turnbull Library, Wellington: “Maori Art, Mythology, Religion and Folk-lore.” Mr. Ernest Jenner, A.R.A.M. Lecturer in Music at the Christchurch Teachers’ Training College: “Music and Musical Legends.” Dr. A. G. Butchers, M.A., LL.B., D.Litt. (N.Z.), M.Ed. (Melb.), of the Correspondence School of the Education Department, Wellington: “Discussion Forum of Education.” Mr. K. C. Reid, Lecturer in Physical Education at the Auckland Teachers’ Training College: “Folk , Dancing.” Also present will be Dr. J. 8.~ Cbndliffe,' D.Sc., M.A., of the Secretariat staff of the League of Nations, who is .at present on leave in. New. Zealand. Dr. Condliffe, who. was- previously Professor of Economics at Canterbury, and also connected with the Institute of Pacific Relations, has done a great deal for the school movement in the past, and will give an address on Sunday night.