WOMEN TEACHERS

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17997, 16 April 1930, Page 6

WOMEN TEACHERS

PROTEST AGAINST APPOINTMENT. SCHOOL COMMITTEE IGNORED. {By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Further consideration was given today to the protest from a country school committee against the appointment of a woman teacher in preference to a married man applicant with lower grading marks. Despite a warning from the board chairman that she would probably meet with opposition from, the committee the woman insisted upon the appointment, which was then con-, firmed.

UGLY GIRLS WANTED,

WOMEN TEACHERS MARRY.

(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday

“We are a sort of matrimonial agency up here,” wrote the chairman of a country committee to to-day’s meeting of the Education Board. He asked if it would be a breach of confidence or etiquette on the board’s part to advise the committee if the next woman teacher was engaged to be married.

He added that his school had had five women teachers in four years, and asked, “Have you no ! plain or ugly girls ? ” The letter proceeded : “ Have you no plain or ugly girls that have the necessary qualifications, or have you a set rule as to features? All the live women we have had have been most popular with the children, and it has been an orgy of send-off and farewell entertainments. Now that you have the late assistant’s resignation, will the board see that we have one to replace her ?’’

The board decided to advise the perturbed chairman that applications for the vacancy would be called in the usual way. “ If the name of the school is advertised there will be a rush of applications,” jocularly suggested a member.