STAFFING THE SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2698, 18 February 1916, Page 3

STAFFING THE SCHOOLS

EXPERIENCE IN AUCKLAND. ' Pro.. Auokland, February 17. A report was received by the Auckland Board of Education yesterday from the Chief Inspector stating that a large number of inexperienced, and, to some extent, uneducated people had applied lately to the board for employment, giving as their reason for doing so that they wished to bo lof service to the country at the present crisis, as well as, of course, to earn a livelihood. It was true, continued the report, that the service was in need of a greater supply of efficient teachers, but they were not required in larger or more desirable schools. They were needed for those schools which lay in out of tho way districts, for which it \yas sometimes difficult to obtain applicants. The board was often glad of tho services of the inexperienced, who not infrequently developed into useful teachers, but just now so many oF that type were offering that there did not seem much prospect of providing employment for them for some time to como. The board received the report witli expressions of appreciation of the spirit animating those people who had made explications for positions. It was pointed out, ihowevor, thtiti efficiency must bo the Traic-forOTd of tire board. ~ *