APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6553, 2 August 1899, Page 3

APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS.

- — « At the meeting of the. Board of Education this morning, the. Chairman referred to the selections made by the Rakaia South and Harewood Road Committees, each of whom had chosen the candidate placed first in order of merit, as illustrations of the advantages of the system recently adopted by the Board in the appointment of its teachers. He said: — "In. the case of Rakaia South the candidate chosen, Mr G. White, has been for over ten years- master of the Oust- school, where- his work has been invariably of a very high order. The selection of Mr Twose for Harewood Road school affords even a more striking example of the benefits which are likely to accrue- to teachers of long and meritorious service. For a very long time the Board has recognised the claims of Mr Twose, his excellent work at Eyreton West having placed him among the very foremost of those teachers entitled to promotion. But apply as often as he would under the old system, which practically provided - that all candidates (sometimes as many as twenty, -and even more) considered competent for the position should be approved, Mr Twose was unable to secure that recognition which his long and valuable service undoubtedly entitled him to. In obtaining the inspectors' written recommendations, in reducing the number of approved applicants to not more than six, and in. placing the names in order of merit, the Board has provided a system which, while still leaving committees a fj&? pkpip 6 ; SP?P n g; }>he .best . applicants, will §tiTeljx: tf -spTOewhat^ slowly, .■ bring promo|io^:;:ijKhere.: Vpfor^otiohi'vhas: been earned, and- afforti :.-keenJ satisfaction to th6"laTge;majferity; of tJte'B/qapi's teachers:"