NEW EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 204, 18 August 1908, Page 2

NEW EDUCATION BILL.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. invercargill, Lust iNiglit. On Saturday afternoon a deputation from tile Southland Teachers' institute met -\1 r, Italian, ALP., chairman of the iWtanieutary Education Cominilliee a;ul discussed some aspects of the Education Amendment Bui. Tire deputation assured Air llanun tlhat Southland teachers cordially approved the motives . of the liill and recognised that its introduction as law, even without alteration, M ould do good to a large number of teachers. '1 lie institute wished to rai.ve 'no objections), but to make a few Suggestions concerning the promotion of teachers). it was pointed out that an assistant coming from a lower posi- - tion to a lliigiier one -might possibly be ' in an anomalous position of having for three years to work at a lower salary than as assistant working at a maximum salary in the position next below him. The raising of the minimum salary in a few instances would dispose jf.this anomaly. Answering a question regarding additional • assistants, Mr. liana 11 explained that it would be a natter for the Board to assign a position in -the case where a new position iVils created and where a new teacher ivould receive a greater salary than ,ii:> original member of the shilf. Ke:ening to the position of women teachers a member of the deputation asked iliat first female assistants be ranked lot lower than a second assistant on Jlie staff of a school, ile stated .thai A'cllington, Canterbury, and Southland ioai'ds appointed a lit'st woman second iSsistant, but Auckland and Ofcigo aplointed her third assistant. The nniorm adoption of tile lirst plan iu big cliools was asked in justice to the woiv»n teachers of New Zealand. Menion was made of the main objection o the salaries scheme in t'liat it still wrmittcd a reduction of salary jn the asc of the teacher whos« school hrough a reduced average had been oworcd in grade. Mr. iiana.il informed tlie deputation hat 'this. objection had been carefully onsidered liy the committee, and it «i 3 proposed to meet it by adding a lauso to the effect that a teacher Hale to reduction in salary in the cirumstanees mentioned shall conthnie to crave unreduced pay for two years, bus giving Education Boards an opporir.iity of effecting a suitable transfer.