TARANAKI TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 17, 8 June 1914, Page 4

TARANAKI TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

INTERVIEW WITH M.l'.'S. '-Mrs lkiwling and Jlc-yife Tomipler and Jfcllroy, on behalf of the. Teachers' Institute, in< t- Ales*r* I line and Okey, Ml'.'s, mi iSaturdiiy, to lay before them the views of teachers on mutters likely to he b'l'"n' I'M-liaroent 't.hi'a year. The Mowing qmotions were toiwdii'd on: That conwlidaUon <f Miools should be carriei) out wherever possible. Tha,t ilie trin-i'TiT expenses of teachers be paid' by the DejKintimcnt. That junior scholarships should be nbolishoii, and the money so wed should be spent in payirwr lodginj cxpenhea of thoss children who are highest .in tlhe free piaee exnminatioai, and who (have to live awav from home in outer to nttend secondary schr,«l». The ina.u.guration of a Council of Fdueaitioii'. wliicih .under the control Parliament, shall have the direction of the educational policy and administration. That injectors should be placed un-. der the. control of the- Education Depa.ntment. An adequate eeale of salaries for teachers and inspections. That salaries should not be bawd on attendance, but on cfl'icßency and service. That the minimum salary Should be £l3O, that no ©alary be reducedl whilfl a teacher is efficient, and fat men be able to rise by annual inc.rem.cnte to £>fio and woiw-n 'to £IBO. That sakirioa of pnni'l teachers and pr.obationer(s be. raised to the level of those of cadets in Hie. nailway «nd posit office. That Hie maximum salary foe not less than £SOO. A Dominion scheme for promotion. That suTvemnmiation be counted on the best, three years, and not the la«t three years of The Pick pay regulations bo madle for the Dominion. That sdwolß be set apart in cacili district foT tilie training of uncertiftwubed tenchers. That teachers' dwellings oe provided witb modern conveniences. Ttint an averaee atteivlawc of 800 oe the That if the nUTrilbcr of 'boardli is to be reduced to eieiht or nine, the Tararwki district be extended fin n4 to take in the wfliole of the Taranaki province. MeaT" TTine and Okev trave a syniTvntlbinfie Ihwi-in- to demitation, and TVln.mfrod their «niT>nort. the co?ninr» sn«aion. Hr Wilkinson. M.P.. wis not. nhlp to 'be present, but he will lie Interviewed bv the Winowrrai District Tnot.Hut'-. and Afr Wil«nn, M.P. feuT"iimi.niii"i. hn.i ilreadv been cointnm-ni<-ntprl with and has nroTirsed his cooperation.