TEACHERS' CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 162, 8 January 1914, Page 8

TEACHERS' CONGRESS.

■» YESTERDAY'S SESSIONS.-'" J!y Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night, The New '/calami Educational Institute continued its sessions this morning, when it was resolved to strive for the inauguration of a council of education which, under the control of Parliament, sball have the direction of the educational policy and administration of the Dominion, with the assistance of local bodies, preferably four, education boards and local committees having no voice *n the appointment of teachers, an 1 alio for placing the inspectorial and teaching stalls under the control of that ■council. The conference also decided to strive for an adequate scale of salaries for teachers and inspectors, for the provision of a .sufficient supply of trained teachers, and for the substitution of a teacher's efficiency and service, instead of attendance, as the basis of computation of salaries, special attention to be paid to the salaries of teachers in grades 3 and i.

A special meeling of the executive and 20 representatives- of district institutes will be held in Julv next. The next annual meeting will be eld in Julv

The demand for the payment of superanimation allowances on the three bestpaid years of service, and the request for an actuarial report on the cost of increasing allowances to widows from fIK per annum to £2(S, were renewed. licgret was expressed that Parliament found it impossible to deal with the salary question last year. The Institute urges that the new scale should be made to apply for the whole of 1915. The ''Murray" purses presented to the provident fund totalled £lO 18?, but Auckland (£So) and North Canterbury (£BO and £27) had msde special appeals on behalf of distressed members. The election of pflaers reaullwl:—Pre. sident, Mr A. Erskine (Wellington! • vice-president, Mr T. TJ. Wells (Auckland); secretary. Mr H. A. Parkinson; treasurer, Mr E. V. Just: executive. Messrs. Newton (North Tsland). Flamauk (South Tsland). and Grundy (Wellington); Journal registrar, Mr J. Menflies. ' .