TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 3

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

MEETING OF THE BOARD. A meoting of the Technical Education Board was held last night. Mr. G. Frost presided. ' - Mr. JV'E.' Skeates was appointed engineering instructor under the soldiers' vocational training.scheme., .: The 'report, of the Standing Committee containing the following recommendations was adopted': .That the letter from the Director oil Education announcing that the scheme,of vocational training 'for. returned soldiers had beon accepted by the. Repatriation Department, arid that the Education Do. partment'was prepared to co-operate with the Teohnioal Education Board in carrying out.tho details of the scheme, : bo received, atfd that the acting-director be authorised to continue correspondence ivnd work connected with suoli scheme. .That tho Wellington Labour Representation Committee bo informed that "a, yearly donation of <£10 minimum had been considered necessary in the past when nominating a representative, of such a body to the board, and that such nomination was subject to the approval ot the Minister of Education.

That the Wellington Electrical Enginr eers and' Traders' Industrial TJnion of Workers be informed in similar terms to the last..

That the acting-director's report upon a proposal made by tho Wellington Master' Plumbers' Industrial Union of Employers, whereby tho junior plumbing praotico class bo reduced from 24 hours to 2 hours' duration, be approved, and that. the aforesaid Master Union be notified in terms -of such report to the effect that the concession asked for oannot bo acceded to. ! That a letter, from Mr. J. H. Howell, containing information relative to tho election of managers of technical schools, and furthor relative to his desire to personally report upon tho question of salaries to staff, be received, .and that tho reply of the chairman to the effect that 'although the salary been passed, as a, matter "for future guidance, he saw no reason why the question should not be reopened if the interests of the institution demanded it," be approved. That adjustments of salary payment to probationer art teachers on account of 'reduced hours of teaching, be made as follow;— Miss Key worth, from ,£SO to £2t per annum as. from April 1, 1019; Miss Still, from dGJfI to .£25 10s. per annum aa from April. 1, .1919.'

That Mißs N.- Fitzgerald be appointed assistant shorthand instructress, vice Miss S. Mackay, reeigned, on two evenings per week, at a salary of ,£2O per annum, paid monthly as from April 1, 11)19. 1

.That certain evening instructors who had applied for increase of salary, rnd wlu hW sought and" obtained an interview with' tho chairman and acting-direc-tor upon the subject, be-informed that •the question of'salary'payments generally .had', been deferred-.to eliflble the new director to report fully upon tho matter.