N.Z. WOMEN TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 119, 24 May 1946, Page 2

N.Z. WOMEN TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

MANY SUBJECTS DISCUSSED Mong the many subjects discussed at the annual meeting the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association held in Wellington on Saturday, were the accommodation for teachers in the country, heating, and cleaning of schools, size of classes, equipment in schools, staffing and salaries, and the provision of extra kindergarten playcentres. The meeting viewed with concern the unsatisfactory nature of many programmes presented for children at some picture theatres. The association! expressed concern that there were still some education boards that did not include a woman on the committee that interviewed and selected training college entrants. The meeting noted that the question of needlework in schools was to receive the attention of the Education Department, and that a committee to investigate the teaching of sewing in schools was to be set up. On this committee primary school teachers would be represented. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Miss C. M. Rains (Auckland): vice-presidents, Misses A. T. Tizard (South Canterbury) and M. V. Kennedy (North Canterbury): hon. secretary, Miss G. K. Jarman (North Canterbury): hon treasurer, Miss B. M. Park (North Canterbury); committee. Misses L. J. Nairn (Auckland), A. J. Shelton (South Taranaki). D. Musker (Wellington), M HolmesHenderson (Otago). Mrs. M. M. Barclay (North Canterbury). GLASS SEWING THREAD AND NON-ROTTING COTTONS A glass sewing thread coated with a microscopic layer of latex has been patented in America. It is claimed to be at least as strong as cotton thread, so thin that it is invisible, of great flexibility, moth-proof, and can be dyed any colour. News of amazingly tough new cotton also comes from the same country. Experiments were made by burying cloth and cotton in soil alive with fungi and other microorganisms. Ordinary cotton would have decayed within a week. But the new material, after six months to a vear in the ground was almost, as gnnd as new. The cotton was chemically treated to increase resistance to rot and mildew. We are promised rotrroof cotton awnings, tents, food bags and fish np*"