WELLINGTON BOARD CONTEMPLATES DISMISSALS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 612, 17 August 1933, Page 6

WELLINGTON BOARD CONTEMPLATES DISMISSALS

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THE ENTRANCE AGE

-By Telegraph — Cepyright).

Wellington, Wednesday. The unemployment among teachers was the subject of a memorandum to to-day's meeting of the Education Board by the secretary, Mr. Hylton, 'who pointed out that the position that J would exist at the end of the year as i a consequence of the raising of the | minimum entrance age to six years | was going to be serious. It would be I 'mpossible to find transfers for all ! teachers who would he losing their I pbsitions, more particularly for those | of the higher grades. There would be no alternative but to give the teachers affected three months' notice of the termination of their engagements. Considering the large number already without work, together with about 44 Wellington students to be released from the training colleges ■ at the end of the year, it would be j realised how difflcult the position was going td, be in 1934, and it was imperative that the Government shoulld review the matter without delay. He submitted some alternatives that suggested themselves, first on the list being the immediate repeal of the legislation restricting the entrance age. Colonel McDonald said the fundamental cause of all the trouble was the raising of the entrance age, and they should concentrate on getting the department to realise that it had committed a vital mistake. He moved that representations be made to the department. In the course of the discussion Mr. Nicholls pointed out that one result ' of raising the age was that Kindergartens were springing up all round, and the time would come, he said, when it would be necessary to fight strenuously to get these children into ■ the public schools. Mr. McDonald's motion was carried on a show of hands.