TRIPS HOME FOR TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 8

TRIPS HOME FOR TEACHERS

TO SEE HOME METHODS. ' What may be regarded as the first : stfrp in Wellington .in the direction of exchanging school teachers between different countries was adopted at the meeting of the Wellington Education : Board yesterday, when Miss J. Higgins. assistant at Clyde Quay, was granted twelve months' leave of absence from • service to enable her to visit and undertake teaching in England. ' Mr. Fleming (Chief Inspector) stated that, although no teacher was coming out from England to take Miss Higgins's place, this was in the nature of an exchange of teachers, and was the first exchange from the Wellington district. Miss Biggins had written to the London County Council, offering her services, nud tho' London County Council, through the High Commissioner for New Zealand, had stated 'they roukl find room for n teacher in the schools under their control. In addition to teaching, she wo'uld be required to travel round tho different schools, giving information on NW 7".ilai'''. For this work, said Mr. Fleming, eho was ei , - enily suited, and immediately Upon her return would bo taken into the board's' service again. Stimulate tho (tagging nppetifo with WKYTE ANT) MAOKAY'S WHBKX A wlioksoßie spirit. Ask for it by hnroe. -Advt. . Lucie Clinnlrieiix, who three years aim awarded tho i>vi?.o for virtito- nnd nobility of etuiractcr in a romnotiuon n(. Amiens, lin-.' been sentenced in Paris So m-nn! servitude for life for li.ivine (-.auseij the death of her sweetheart, '•■who . hodjiltert her, by emptying, a pint bottle of vitriol over liim while Eβ wis asleep..