TEACHERS CONFER

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1932, Page 6

TEACHERS CONFER

RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED, j

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WELLINGTON, September 8

The technical conference carried a; motion recommending the setting up of local committees to deal with matters .arising' from unemployment among youths, ’the appointnient :Of vocational officers in full or part time positions, the payment of a Government subsidy equal to one half of the salaries of such; officers',lithe remission of fees to unemployed,’youths who'ate specially recommended fay the local committee as desirous of, -and likely to. benefit from joining the existing tecbnjdn classes, the of day techn’ea classes in; .technical Schools under the joint control of a technical school! board knd local committee. _ -Tbp recommendation was atTdpte that! local unemployment committees rffiouid follow th 6 P olic y of recommending -for employment boys and girls over sixteen in preference to others. A motioif Talso carri/d urging'technical bollegel-board-s to discuss the desirability of raising the school age to sixteen with the proviso that boys and air's might enter employment ’for hotmore than half the time between ' 'the ages of fourteen and sixteen.