EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1328, 4 January 1912, Page 4

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

MANY RESOLUTIONS. (By Telosraph-Prcss Association.) Timaru; January 3. The annual meeting of the Educational Institute opened hero to-day. All the officers and delegates were present at the opening, except five. The Mayor (Mr, J. Craigie, M.P.) and Mr.- J. Hamilton, chairman of the board, gave the delegates a cordial welcome to Timaru. The president, Mr. 0. I). Flamauk, in his address, dealt with health instruction in schools, including for those over 12 lessons in sexual physiology. Remits concerning the constitution and superannuation questions were referred to committees. Somo remits dealing with the administration of the Act occasioned long discussions. A remit, "That inspectors should be appointed by and be under the control of the Department," was lost by 28 to ii 2, but a subsequent one, "That the inspectorate should be centralised," was carried almost unani'uiously. "That'dssistifnts should displace pupils teachers" was carried without discussion.

Other decisions were:—That term examinations should bo reduced from three to two; that scholarship funds should bo wholly devoted to paying lodging allowances; that cost of removal should be repaid to teachers compulsorily transferred; that the Minister's decision in disputes should be final.

On the question that a Dominion scale of classification and promotion should ba adopted, a stepping-stone amendment was carried, "That the number of education districts should be reduced." Auckland teachers praised highly the system adopted by their board, and said it ought to be made a statutory system and applied throughout the Dominion.