COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 9

COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

; ACTION BY,THE AUCKLAND ■ -';;.■'. . . Vbo'ael)'.. ■, (By Telegraph-Special Correspondent.),- .''■': '' .Auckland, September.!. ; •.At yesterday's meeting of., the Education Board,. Mr. Wallace had given notice to.move: "That the recommendation : the Teachers' Institute .; that no male teacher receive an,, appointment ;of ,£IBO a year, - and lio' female;teacher an appointment of .£151) a'.-yeiir,. unless he' or .she lias served at least two .years as head teacher in a country school, approved by the board." .... ■'■;•'/. The chief inspector ' (Mr; E. K. Mulgan). to whom the matter had been.referred reported tluit the,motion, was .sound in principle, and would be of considerable :bene.-. fit to■ the :cause of ; education. -/.If Mr. Wallace's motion were adopted in its present form, however;.'the hands of the board would be unduly tied in' , that (a) no fciiuile teacher would be eligible for appointment" to a school of grade 3, which w-as . clearly a . country school, before taking country service in a school below grade. 3;, and (b) the service of assistants in schools below that, of grade 6b would not count as / country '.w0rk.,..-.,This last consideration seemed inexpedient and unfair. In the interests of Hie service, it would also be desirable that the term ■imti-y school" should be defined as ono having a staff of not inore' than t»:o adult teachers, or, ■ in other , words, a school bfflow grade Ob. He suggested that 'Mr. Wallace should amend his motion as follows:—" That no teacher in future appointed to auy position in a school of a higher grade than Ob shall be eligible for promotion, unless lie or she lias served for at least two years in a country school." Mr. Wallace adopted the chief inspector's suggestion, and the motion,, as accordingly amended, was carried unanimously.