TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 2

TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

'■"■ :■■. - ?:'v;V ; i;v'-'A.;', * ■;■ ;'.■''''. : ;'' ■ ..' ; (Fron) /Git SB'ecial ', >:.■ \ . :'.',': ; V'\,Qtaki,' ". ... .'■ i mee.ting i ,M.-th : e 1 .' i Mailawatu,braricli pf; ; "the Edueatitiital Institute = was' 'held at ~ Levin on Saturday.... There .w.as a, fair ..miister,'presided oto by the president, ■ Mr. W. Burns-Smith'. ' -. . The principal; business was the dismis- •,; sioa of the report 6f .the Rpyal Cominis■'!'sion on Education, recently-.presented to i' : Parliament..: T>he.proposal of the I'iHission to divide Now Zealand into, five ■ /educational districts (instead ..of_ thirteen,, as at present) waf adversely-criticised in ." : a. strong speech by Mr. - Hanllne,' *ho . pointed put the injustice that Wellington . ; would suffer under tho proposed division, which W'ould not only make' Wellington district the smallest- in the Dominion, but . divided into two, as it would be, by Cook 1 Strait, S'ouM make it the most awkward [ for administration and the least desirable ' from a teacher's point of view'. As nn |. alternative Mr. Harding put forward a '. scheme to' the Dominion into four educational di : stricts*-two to each island. It -ivas generally agreed that the present. !■' division 'into thirteen districts Was not ■. the best, the districts being unequal in i, size in case of administration and in.bpportuniti.es for promotion (and therefore] in educational efficiency from-the stand--! .. point of the.people generally). The whole.;] ; question will be dealt with at some length.; : at the forthcoming .Teachers' Institute : Gohference at New Plymouth. '