WELLINGTON TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 527, 25 February 1876, Page 4

WELLINGTON TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.

At a meeting of the Wellington Teachers’ Association, held in the Thorndon Schoolroom on Saturday, 19th February, Mr Mowbray in the chair, the following resolutions, embodied in the report of the committee, were laid before the meeting and approved . 1. That the control of the State education of the colony be vested in an education department under the General Government, and that the system be secular, uniform, and compulsory throughout the colony. 2. That district boards at convenient centres shall have the general management of all educational establishments receiving Government aid within their respective districts, including the appointment of teachers.V- ‘ 3. That committees of advice to act under the district boards, be elected by the ratepayers and parents of children attending State schools more than three miles from the the central office of said district, whose duties shall be to watch over the educational interests of their localities, but not to inter fere with the internal management of the schools. • :r ■ •. 4. That the examination of teachers shall be conducted by a board of examiners appointed by the Government. 5. That in any possible readjustment of certificate, due regard should be paid to length of service and previous success in teaching. 6. That inipectors be appointed by the Government, and be periodically removed from one district to another, 7. That any teacher feeling aggrieved by the action of any district board, may appeal to the head of the department for redress. 8. That facilities be afforded by Government to teachers for prosecuting their higher studies, by subsidising competent professois to give gratuitous lectures at suitable hours. 9. That provision be made by Government in the chief towns and centres of population, by means of science and art classes, and otherwise, whereby promising boys from the working classes may have an opportunity of receiving higher instruction than they could in the common schools of the colony. 10. That a deputation from the Certificated Teachers’ Association of New Zealand be appointed to wait upon the Premier, in order to request the Government to introduce an Education Bill for the whole colony, which shall include as many of the foregoing resolutions as they, after mature deliberation, may deem proper. 11. That the secretary of committee be requested to submit the foregoing resolutions for the consideration of the Canterbury Branch of the Certificated Teachers’ Association of New Zealand, with a suggestion that early action be taken on the matters referred to therein.