TEACHING ESSENTIAL WORK

Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 3

TEACHING ESSENTIAL WORK

Scope Of Regulations

The regulations declaring teaching an essential industry include married women who have returned to the profession as a war effort. Teachers employed in private schools are exempted. All other departments of the professions are covered, however, from students at training colleges to men and women teachers in primary and secondary schools and at the universities. Explaining the regulations the Minister of Industrial Man-power, the Hon. A. McLagan, said it would now be necessary for a teacher who wished to transfer from a position with one education authority to a position with another to obtain the consent of the district man-power officer. Such consent was not required where the new position was under the same* education authority. The wide scope of the regulations’ are expected to make them of immense importance in meeting staffing difficulties. It is stated that boards can, with the consent of the man-power officer, transfer any teachers within their territory to a particular school. Discussing the position of married women teachers Mr F. H. Muirhead, district man-power officer at New Plymouth, said those who had returned to schools for the duration of the war to relieve shortages came within the scope of the regulations, but it was possible for education boards to apply for exemption for those who had accepted employment for short periods.