TEACHERS AND THE WAR.
HOW FAR SHOULD ENLISTMENT BE ALLOAYED?
WELLINGTON, June 20. Replying to a deputation yesterday, the Minister for Education said the to enable him to decide as to the expediency or otherwise of limiting the enlistment of teachers, Education Boards were being; asked to state their experience in finding suitable persons to act as permanent or relieving teachers. He said that of 4346 teachers there were now only about 237 single men, and many of these were under 21. He added that while clerks, mechanics and even professional men and experts could to a considerable extent bo replaced from other sources, there was practically only one source of supply of teachers, and that was already seriously depleted.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 148, 26 June 1916, Page 4
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