RATIONING WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1933, Page 6

RATIONING WORK

for unemployed teachers.

WELLINGTON DISCUSSION.

(Per Press Association- -Copyright).

WELLINGTON, Dcember 13

A resolution contending that the scheme inaugurated last year for ra-

tioning work among unemployed/ teachers was not in the interests of the lower paid section, and therefore the Education Department should be urged to abandon it, \\ as the subject of a notice of motion which, was defeated by 8 votes to 4 at the, monthly meeting of the Wellington Education Board to-day.

Embodied in th emotion, which was .moved by 'Colonel T. W. McDonald, was a proposal that the following system be adopted in lieu -of the rationing scheme: (a) that the highest graded Unemployed - ex-Training -College students be selected to fill all other temporary and relieving positions, including additional teachers ■ships be allocated among teachers remaining on the unemployed list n order of their grading, and be paid according to relieving teachers’ schedule effect. ' The motion, it was contended, would be to stabilse staffs for ti, e f„ll year, where probationary assistants were authorised instead «of' f there having to be three changes required under the present system. The senior inspector, Mr D. Mncaskill, considered that the rationing system was working as- well as any system might be expected to work. It was his opinion that' as many teachers should be maintained in employment, as possible. The Director of Education was not saving one penny. If permanent workwere given for certain teachers, the Board would he doing a distinct unkindnoss to the remainder whom it would he unable to employ.