WOMEN TEACHERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18944, 15 May 1933, Page 8

WOMEN TEACHERS.

ANNUAL MEETING OF BODY

POSITION OF ASSISTANTS.

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS QUESTION

(By Telegraph.—press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Saturday.

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association was held to-day, Miss E. Andrews presiding.

Resolutions were passed that the Government grants to kindergartens should be restored and that Grade II assistants should be appointed to assist the infant mistress in every Infant school with a roll of 120 or over, thus providing a 'continuous avenue of promotion for infant teachers.

Remits were passed that children should be enrolled at the beginning of term in which they reach the age of five; thait, in view of the trend of modern education, every pressure should be brought to bear upon the department for the immediate restoration of adequate school supplies. A remit was carried, protesting against the recently-enacted Intermediate School Regulations on the following grounds: That they were neither in the best interests of the children nor according to the best practice in modern systems of education; that intermediate schools should be restricted to a two years’ course; thait the regulations are inequitable and unjustifiable as regards the proposed staffing scale. The question of superannuation is being 'considered in committee.