N.Z. ASSISTANT MASTERS' ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 83, 2 January 1920, Page 4

N.Z. ASSISTANT MASTERS' ASSOCIATION

The annual conference of tho New Zealand Assistant Masters' Association was held yesterday in tho Normal School, Thorndon. Mr. 11. P Pcnlington (viccprosident'l occupied the chair, and deleEates from Otago, Canterbury, Wellington. and Auckland were present.

Tho meeting discussed the recent scale of salaries, nnd entered an omphalic protost nrainst the method of introducing it by resolution.' instead of through Parliament. so ircventiiig discussion and criticism. The method of allocation of the increases on the grading scheme was criticised, nnd tile scheme was condemned on the eround that its bases were unsound. Resolutions were passed advocating: (1) Payment of removal or transfer expenses ns in the Civil Service; (2) accumulated leave on full pay to- refurncd-soldicr teachers, as in branches of tho Civil Service: (.1) tint .£25 per child exemption bo made in war tax on income, as is made in ordinary income tax; (1) a uniform standard in proficiency English nnd arithmetic examination cards, many instances being cited of the inequalities f'.'iml nnd hardships arising therefrom: <■>) (hat the anomalies and injustices in the trrndimr of returood-soldier teachers be •brouuht before the executive of the New Zealand ildurational Institute, with a recommendation that immediate steps be taken to have justice dono to them.

Tho following officers wero elected for 1020: —President, Mr. 11. I l '. Penlington fCanterbury); viee-presidonfs, Messrs. A. ,f. Shenherd I'Aucklnnd), and G. R. Kidston (Wellington); lioii. secretary, Mr. A. .T. G'-oham (Wellimrtonh hon treasurer, Mr. IT. Fisher (Wellington); committee. Messrs. P. A. Homplemann (W"llington). T. Begg (Otago), G. H. Taylor (Auckland), and J. Bowden (Canterbury),