UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4418, 22 February 1930, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS.

WANGANUI DLSTRIIOT RETURN

COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT,

IMPROVEMENT ON LAST YEAR,

The following report concerning unemployed teachers in the Wanganui Education Board district was submitted at Wednesday’s meetingof the Board:—

Students who left Training College at the end of 1929: —Twentyeight selected for appointments as probationary assistants. All have been appointed with the exception of one who received an appointment on the staff of the Wanganui .Technical College, and one who re-

ceived an appointment under the Wellington Board on account of the removal of her parents to the Wellington district. Fifteen were granted their certificates. Twelve of these have been appointed substitute assistants, which provides them with employment for the current year. They are eligible for appointment to permanent jiositions during the year. Of the remainder, two were late in lodging applications and have not been placed, and the other has made no request for employment. He may he spending a third year at the Training College. Number of unemployed, two. Employed -as Probationary Assistants Last Year. —Sixteen. These are now certified teachers. One has received a permanent appointment in the Auckland district, and one in our district. Two have been appointed substitute assistants. One has retired from the service. One has accepted a temporary appointment in a Grade O school. Number of unemployed, ten. Employed as Substitute Assistants and Additional Assistants Last Year. —Thirty-one. These are certified teachers. Eight have received permanent appointments, and two have accepted temporary -appointments in Grade O schools. One has left the service. Nine are on the relieving staff. Number of unemployed, eleven. Unemployed Teachers.—The total number of unemployed certified teachers, as above indicated, is twenty-three. If applications now before the Department are approved, six of these teachers can -be appointed as additional assistants, which will reduce the number of unemployed to seventeen. The grading of a number of teachers in temporary positions is such that these should be able to secure permanent appointments in the near future, and thus provide openings for some of those who are unemployed. The position is better than it was at this time last year. The report was received.