EDUCATION INSTITUTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 159, 4 January 1912, Page 8

EDUCATION INSTITUTION

ANNUAL MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. The annual meeting of the Educational Institution opened here to-day. All the officers and delegates were present at the opening except five. The Mayor (Mr. J. Craigie, M.P.) and Mr. J. Ha.mil. ton, chairman of the Board, gave the delegates a cordial welcome to Timaru. The president (Mr. 0. D. 'Plamank), in his address, dealt with health instruction in the schools, including instruction for those over 12, lessons in sexual physiology. Proceeding to deal with the order paper, remits concerning constitution 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 iwas lost by 28 to 22. A subsequent one, "that the inspectorate should be centralised,'' was carried almost unanimously. "That • assistants should displace pupil 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 disputes should be final. On the question "that a Dominion 6cale 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 he made a statutory system and lie applied throughout the Dominion.