COUNTRY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 352, 1 April 1910, Page 5

COUNTRY SCHOOL TEACHERS

-snriAi. i:\.\isiime.nt." sucuestioxs i'ou imimiovemenl •'/ li.r Telegraph.—-Proas A*«viatlon. Auckland. Last Night. At the quarterly conference of conn* ry school held to-day, a let:er was read from the Education Hoard :o the effect that it could not see its vav to grant the request that country 'ervice shoald carry extra marks. ,\lr '.llis spoke mi ihe neuter and ll'ged the executive to keep steadily in ■lew the question of offering additional mliicemenis to teachers to go into the ountry. At its ia*t meeting the Board wis bewailing the fact that it could lot get young men to go into the counry districts. This was not surprising inder existing ei reunite :i;-e»'. Mr Eanib thought a niinimuin of at ■>ast throe years' country -orvic.> should e required of ti'achers, anil if this worn 0 :t would give llio-'e who h:'.d put Up >'ith social bani>linient for so long, a hance to get into *nw" was ;l latter that ;i(T. -t..l a M the 1: iards in lie Doiiiinion. Several of the members s-id that af resent if :• man once got into tho nuntrv he wn« generally ther» for ood. Tt was dci'idcd < o refer "> • mirsrfOTt (i the Exec-, (ivc. A report is to ho tado at next meeting.