WOMEN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7

WOMEN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

■■ ANNUAL MEETING. \ , The annuar meeting of the Wellington Women Teachers' Association was held in tho education.buildings last evening, Miss Coad presiding. ■' .'" ". .The' annual report stated that mem- , fcership had increased DurinK the year lectures wore arranged on fdu'eation! matters.' Miss M'Lcan, ' principal of the ".Girls'. College.-Mr.-•...Sh.ailpr .Weston.;;: mgV Professor "Hunter* '.'were, among, those'who addressed'the as- '. sociation. Work had /been, ; diweted .'chiefly.to efforts to improve the staffing of infant schools, and' the position.' of • .the first -woman, assistant in the upper I ' schools,'.Remits-were se'rifc to the an- ■■'• nual' conference of ■ the N.Z:E:I.,' and also, to the district*, institute "on thesematters. The liriking'up of the second- . ary' sohools'women teachers' with the AVomen Teachers' Association, practically all'joining; was another matter for" satisfaction. Branches of the Dominion Association are this example, and ot6 welcoming the secondary women ""teachers.as members. . The W.W.T.A. is affiliated .now with the Workers' Educational Association, and with the Women's National Council. Miss CoadAvas elected president ". of the Dominion As- "■ sociatiorT. ■ . •/•'ln moving the adoption of the report '•'Miss Ooad said that-at the annual m'eot- ■' ing of the N.Z.E.I. moat of the matters that affected the interests of womoD .-• teachers .were not." carried.. Notwithstanding that they were as three to one in tho calling, women .'teachers, had practically failed to impress themselves upon their co-workers, and failed to remove the handicaps under which v they ■■labmired.' y' . ;• Tho report wa.? adopted. A letter from: the association,. to the Education Board advocating ■ tho estan-' lishment.of a hostel for woinen teachers was read.. It was pointed out. that * innior'teachers found it almost impes- .-.:■■ Bible to' secure accommodation within their means. an<t> action on. their -behalf . was. urgently needed.'- .Tlie letter was approved by the meeting. t / ".The election of officers was'as follows: '.'—President. Miss Goad;.'vice-presidents, Miss.Edwards and Miss Cook;-lion, secretary, Miss Turner;, lion. ..treasurer, Miss Lea;' committee, Misses Muuro, Kennedy, -Adlington,' Hargreaves, and Thornton.. . - - '' . Miss Coad gave an outline of the work that had been done nt "the Dominion Women Teachers' Conference . and Miss .- Turner-gave an interesting' outline of conditions relating to the teaching profession at Home.