EDUCATIONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

INSTITUTION OPENED , TEACHERS’ -fSH'ERESTS T)IS- : , • chjSpDV;; (Per Press Association.) S ’ .. t', :. < ( Timaru, January 3. The annual meeting of the Educatoinal Institution opened kero to-day . ' All the officers and delegates were present at the opening except five. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. Craigie, M.P.) and,Mr J. ’Hamilton, chairman of the Board, gave the delegates a cordial welcome to Timaru. The president (Mr. O. D. Flamank), in his address, dealt with health instruction in the schools, including instruction for those over twelve, lessons in sexual physiology. Proceeding to deal, with the order paper, remits concerning constitulio u and superannuation questions were referred to committees. Some remits dealing with the administration of the Act, “that inspectors should be appointed by and* be under the control of the Department,” occasioned a long discussion, but was lost by 28 to 22. A subsequent one, “that the inspectorate should be centralised,” was carried almost unanimously. “That assistants should displace pupT teachers” was carried without discussion. Other decisions were; That term examinations should be reduced from three to two; that scholarship funds should be wholly devoted to paying lodging allowances ; that the cost of removal should be repaid to teachers compulsorily transferred; that the Minister’s decision in d.spates should be final. On the question “that a Dominion scale of classification and promotion should be adopted,” a stepping stone amendment was carried, that the number of education districts‘should- be reduced. Auckland teachers praised highly the system adopted by their Board, | and said it ought to be made a statu--1 tory system and bo applied-throughout the Dominion.