WOMEN IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 152, 23 March 1939, Page 10

WOMEN IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS

Few Applications For Positions Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, March 22. Comment on the lack of interest in the positions of senior women assistants in country schools was made at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board today. Several vacancies had been advertised and had attracted only teachers with low grading, and in one or two cases there had been no applicants at all.

Mr. A. N. Macky asked whether the board could make positions more attractive.

Tlie secretary, Mr. D. W. Dunlop, said the positions could scarcely be made more attractive. Women teachers, however, preferred posts in towns, where they could get a maximum of £330 a year for au ordinary grade A position, to places as senior women assistants in country schools, where the salary was £4O a year higher.

APPOINTING OF MARRIED

WOMEN

Committee’s Complaints

Bv I elegrapli —Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 22.

‘■l hope members will note the number of complaints from school committees about the appointment of married women teachers,” said Mr. W. G. Campbell, chairman of the Auckland Education Board, at a meeting of tileboard today following its consideration of the appointments of teachers. The order paper contained four letters from committees agreeing with the board’s views and opposing married women teachers. 31 r. S. B. Sims said a resume of the letters should be sent to the Department of Education. “We have more than 130 students from training college awaiting permanent positions,” said Mr. W. 11. Fortune. "Where are we going to get positions for them? Is there going to be a restriction on the number of admissions to training college?” Mention was made of young women who had been appointed at the end of last year and had married during the holidays before beginning their new duties in February this year. The secretary, Mr. I). W. Dunlop, said a letter had come from a woman teacher stating that she was going to be married and asking for Monday off as she wanted a day to settle in her home. The board decided Co inform the Minister of Education, Mr. Fraser, of the number of protests against the appointment of married women teachers which the board was receiving. (Wellington Board discussion on Page 5.)