WOMEN TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2519, 14 July 1915, Page 2

WOMEN TEACHERS

A DOMINION MEETING THE SYNOD AND THE WOMEN'S YOTE

A meeting' of "the Neiv Zealand Women Teachers' .Association, presided over by Miss Phoebe Myers, was held in the Mount Cook School yesterday afternoon to consider matters in connection with the constitution of tlibir Dominion organisation and also to consider the matter of registration. There were present representatives from several of the Women Teachers' Associations in the North, and South Island, who had come to Wellington for the twofold object of attending this particular meeting and also to be present at the opening of the conference of the New Zealand Education/Institute. Thero ivere present; Miss Fauberfc (Hawke's Bay), Miss Fiiilaysoii (Wellington), Misses Hankins and Simpson (Auckland), Miss M. M. Brown (Barlborough), Miss A. F. Johnson (Nelson), Miss Chaplin, 8.A., and Miss A. M. Spence (Canterbury North), Misses M'Kenzie and C. Littlo (Otago), Misses Birss and M'Leod (Southland), and Miss Coad (secretary), Wellington. Miss Goad gave an outline of work that had. been achieved by the association and of what it hoped to accomplish during, the present year. Miss v Coad concluded with congratulating Miss Myers upon her election-as a member of the. Advisory Council of Education, and also Miss Chaplin, who represented the South Island upon the. board. Miss Myers briefly returned thanks for the congratulations that had been extended her, and after delivering an apology from Miss Doivling (from New Plymouth) for not being present, proceeded. to bring before the. meeting various questions in. connection with the constitution of the association. A committee was set up to go into the matter, its members consisting of Misses Hawkins, M'Leod, Fauberfc, Myers, and Chaplin. The question of registration was 'next dealt with, and as it is not yet possible for the Now Zealand Women Teachers'. Association to bo registered owing to various formal reasons, itwas decided to elect officers and a committee to prepare the way so that the affairs of the association would be in order when registration finally, camo. 'The following were elected: —Miss Myers, president ; Miss Chaplin (South Island) and Miss Simpson (North Island), vice-presi-dents; Miss Coad, secretary; with Miss' Williams as.' assistant secretary _ and treasurer'; members of the committee, Misses • Faubert, M'Leod, Dowling, Brown, and Johnson. i , A resolution, proposed by Miss Coad,. seconded by Miss Birss, and carried by tho meeting, was to the effect that "This meeting of tho Now Zealand Women Teachers' Association regrets that the Anglican Synod: refused to discuss the question of allowing Svoinen members of churches to vote at parish meetings." After various matters concerning tho status of teachers in their profession were, discussed, Miss Chaplin gave an interesting resume of matters that were brought forward at the conference of the Council of Education sitting in Wellington. , ' • . Miss Myers made a suggesiton before tho meeting ended that- it might be possible' to co-ordinate in. one definite scheme or plan the work that was being done,in, the various 'Schools for war purposes. As it was now done, one schooldid not know what, another, was doing, and such being the case there was a possibility of there being a. surplus in different kinds of garments or a- famine in others.' This would bb avoided if a definite co-ordinating ; sy stem were brought into being. , ■' ■. .