“HEADS” FOREGATHER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 9

“HEADS” FOREGATHER

TEACHERS FORGET CARES DINNER IN TOWN HALL With thoughts of the grading list and new syllabus happily forgotten, the headmasters of Auckland schools met last evening for their annual "dinner at the Town Hall. Over 100 members of the Headmasters’ Association and visitors sat down to the dinner, presided over by Mr. P. Hook, chairman of the association. Among those present were Professor Maxwell Walker, Dr. H. Belshaw, Messrs. 11. S. W. King and W. J. Campbell, representing the Auckland Education Board, and the following members of Parliament: Messrs. J. A Lee, A. Harris, W. J. Jordan and W. E. Parry. In proposing the toast of “The Education Board and Office Staff,” the chairman said that there had been protest last year against the proposal for the abolition of education boards. That protest, he felt, was justified. He was glad that the control of education was not going to b& centralised in Wellington. Replying, Mr. King said that he believed in the education of the country being controlled by the representatives of the people having the guidance of experts. Mr. E. C. Purdie, secretary of the Education Board, who also replied to the toast, said that the status of the teaching profession had risen during the past 30 years. He was satisfied that the teacher’s power and influence was, to-day, in the hands of men and women who were rightly directing it. Other toasts honoured were: “The Members of Parliament,” “The Inspectorate,” and “The Press.”