COUNTRY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8832, 7 June 1907, Page 3

COUNTRY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, Juno 6. The annual mooting of Country Schools Committees Association was held to-day under the presidency of Mr T. McKenzie, M.11.E. A large number of delegates were present from all parts of Otago, and resolutions wore adopted in favour of payment of teachers for doing seventh standard work, adequate staffing of schools, restoration to education boards of control of building yote, upkeep of schools buildings by education boards, erection of shelter sheds by boards, addition of rooms to schools for changing wet garments, facilities for obtaining equal opportunities for country children as for city children, free travelling to pupils attending technical classes over a 60 mile limit, election by board of a teacher of aptitude in imparting instruction in agriculture, and a recommendation to Government to defray cost of two years’ in same in an up-to-date institution in America and Europe in order to fully qualify him to give instruction in this colony, encouragement of local as against central control; district high schools to bo under the entire control of education boards, and better salaries to bo paid to teachers in charge of free secondary education.