N.Z. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 9

N.Z. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

ANNUAL MEETING

CONSTITUTION DISCUSSED

The annual meeting of tho New Zealand Educational Institute was continued yesterday, the president (Mr. A. lirskine) being in the chair. A proposal to alter the constitution of tho institute was" discu&sed throughout the morning, and the discussion extended until late in tho afternoon. As at present constituted tliere is an educational institute to every education district, and' every institute is composed of one or more branchos, a branch being tormed with ten or moro members. The proposed change (brought forward by the executive) was to make these branches praotically independent bodies, or in the words of the remit, to have "District institutes established in such localities as may bo deemed convenient; sucli district institutes to consist of no less than ten members, who shall be resident in the same education district.'/'

After a very lengthy discussion, tlie matter was referred to a committee to report on the best means of bringing all the members" into active relation with the institute's work. The committee's report- is to he referred to tho district institutes not - later than November, 1915, and the subject' will be discusscd again at the next annual -meeting.- • •

Remits 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, relating to teachers' certificates, wero referred to a committee to consider and report to this morning's session, tho committee to consist of Messrs.' M'Uroy, Leslie, De Berry, Ducgan, Cousins, and Eudey, and Misses Chaplin and Faubert. The'question of appointing a paid general secretary was referred (through the executive) to the district institutes, •and will form the subject of a-report to tho next annual meeting. "That at' least one 6eat on the executive shall be held by, a woman teacher." —This was a remit, which, after discussion, could not be declared carried on tho voices, but •it was carried on a division by 29 votes to 23.

Notice has been given to move the following resolutions at to-day's session :—

"That this meeting expresses its sympathy with the 'follow tho > King' (anti-liquor) movement, and recoililuends, tho teachers of New Zealand to earnestly consider the question." "That the executive take : such, measures as seem to it best calculated to safeguard the interests of teachers volunteering for service in tho armies of tho Empire; in particular, their positions should be kept open for them, and where promotion schemes are in existence they should be advanced in grade as if they were still 'teaching."