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COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 27. The General Council of Education today placed on record its confidence And unswerving loyalty to the present system of free-secular and compulsory education. Motions were also passed thai in the opinion of the council the time had arrived when appeals in respect to military service should <be made for afl teachers drawn for service whose cases had not already been decided; that it was imperative that salaries offered to ibeginners in the teaching profession should equal those offered cadets in various branches of the Public Service j that the necessity of providing, without delay, .better facilities for medical inspection of school children and medical and dental attendance where necessary, be urged upon the Government- ■'■•■ laterThe Council passed the following additional resolutions:—That, in the interests of health and physical efficiency, no child 'should be taught in any room I w i in'.; there is less than twelve square of floor space _per child; that this ..ucil strongly urges upon the Govern-

iit the necessity of bringing the Teachers' Superannuation Fund into line' with the Public Service. Superannuation Fund, by basing the retiring allowance on the salary for the.three«highest years of service; that the teachers of the primary and secondary schools who are doing work in technical schools should receive an equitalble addition to their retiring allowances for payments made by them to the superannuation fund on account of salary received for such work in technical schools. ACTION AT ATOKLAM). Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute carried a resolution regretting that the inducements held out to young people to enter the teaching profession were still much below those offered in other branches of the public service. It was also resolycd that the action of one or two education boards in appealing on behalf of teachers is contrary to the repeatedly-ex-pressed views of the Educational Institute, the members of which are against any appeals being made for teachers.

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Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1918, Page 4

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COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1918, Page 4

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1918, Page 4

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