EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 161, 6 January 1912, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. / The Educational Institute sat long hours to-day, attempting to complete consideration of the remits. A balancesheet was presented, showing that the total funds were about £2OOO, of which £IOOO was tiro legal defence fund. The resolution of the previous day, regarding late admissions to superannuation benefits, was amended to provide for the payment of compound interest on arrears. Remits were carried as follows: From Auckland, that the principal woman assistant should have at least equal rank or pay with second assistant. From Otago: That geometrical and scale drawing should be reduced and not required for proficiency in the case of girls. ..,!,.,,, From North Canterbury,: That the Government should exercise supervision over picture show films depicting crimes unfit for children to see. From Otago: That the salary should not fall, so long as a teacher is in the same position, provided that he does not, within two years, refuse transfer to a post worth as much; that salaries of assistants in the secondary department of district high schools should be increased, ' From Auckland: That all teachers' residences should be fitted with modern conveniences. One speaker said that he had askerf a good many delegates about their houses and had found out that only one had a satisfactory home. ' An Auckland remit in favor of special provision being made in each city fpr teaching children of weak intellect was carried unanimously, but slow development was suggested as a better term. Remits in favor of travelling school libraries, supply of educational lantern slides, and reducing the minimum stage for swimming capitation to nine years instead of the 4th standard were carried. The Southland proposal that instead of establishing several small schools, the Department should introduce a system of conveyances to the central school, was .carried unanimously. The president's motion in favor of a definite scheme of health instruction, was referred to himself and Mr. McDonald as a committee, with power to add, to formulate a scheme. $ Other subjects referred to committees were:—lmprovement in sewing syllabus and inquiry into the methods of providing reading matter for schools in other countries. The conference concluded at ten o'clock to-night. The business this evening included a decision to enter into a fresh agreement with S. M. Brown and Co. to continue the publication of the journal for a further five years. A motion by the president that the minister be urged to provide two special instructors- in sexual physiology to instruct senior scholars, was carried unanimously. .

It was also decided to ask the Department to provide an initial grant for school classes in. dairying, A motion that .the present method of election of education boards bv school committees be discontinued was'lost. On the' motion of Miss Newman (Auckland), it was decided that steps be taken to secure for women their legal rights in regard to appointments. The motion was carried unanimously, with applause. It was decided that the next conference be held in New Plymouth.