DUCATION OF GIRLS

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14255, 5 January 1920, Page 6

DUCATION OF GIRLS

POSITION OF MISTRESSES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. At the New Zealand Education Institute Conference to-day consideration was given to the position of women teachers. Miss H. E. Chaplin (Canterbury) introduced a remit, "That in any large school Grade 5X and upwards the responsibilities of the senior class mistress shall include (1) special attention to the health, morals and manners of girls; (2) a general supervision and leaching of a corrected course of lessons ir. elementary physiology, and hygiene; and (3) the general oversight of all matters, which specially affect the welfare of girls, such mistress to have a status and salary equal to that of the infant mistress.'' The main point mde by the mover and by Miss M. Smith (Canterbury), who seconded the motion, was that no one but a woman teacher was able to exert the steadying influence essentflfito the future welfare of girls, and that'special subjects could only be taught to girTS by women teachers. After a discussion Mr Garry (Hawke's Bay) moved that the "senior class mistress" be amended to read "class mistresses," and that the words after "the welfare of girls" be deleted. Jn this -'"ria -he motion was .eanried.'