PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 18 October 1913, Page 5

PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

■ QUESTION OF-TEACHERS' DRESS. At a meeting of the Wellington branoh "»f the' New Zealand Educational Institute, held on September •28 last, members, by means o£ a resolution, protested against any attempt being made to insist that women teaohcra shall wear a special dies 9 when giving physical instruction unless gymnasia are provided in the schools. Tina lias evoked a reply from the Inspector-General of Schools (Mr. G. Hogben), who, in. the course of a letter to the secretary of the Institute, Bays:— . ,1 em directed to eay that tho resolution appears to have been carried under a misapprehension of the facts. The regulations about to be Issued, which, have been drafted for two months or more, do not insist on any special form of dress, or indeed oontain any, reference to the subject of dress., The mover of the re?. Isolation seems, to liavo misunderstood certain Temarka of the Director of Physical Education, which. I ani informed, were to the effect (hat women teachers would bo expected to wear a suitable (not distinctive) costume when receiving their training; that if any did not do so at first, they, soon learnt by experience that it was desirablo, and would then follow the example set by others. It has never been suggested that any -partioular cos-, tume should be worn by the teachers in playgrounds exposed to publitj view." j