EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
PAYMENT OF CASUAL TEACHERS. BOARD lU:?V\' rc ' -""ARTIIENT'S ATTITUDE. Welib;;to'i. Ihs. 4. At Ilia F.dueation Bo:irdio->lay a letter from the Education Department stated that in tlie departsnont's o teacher was not in general entitled to salary m any new position until he sctually commenced liis duties as a teacher in the school, and the payment of salary from an earlier date could not be justified. S3 fint&iling an unwarranted charge on the public funds. lament for the long vacation should be exceptional and should not he made tinless a relieving teacher had been employed for the whole of the previous school year, and tlife only in cases where the teacher concerned was filling the position for some time prior to as well as during the vacation. Members of the board spoke strongly on the subject, and it was resolved that the board entirely disapproves of the instructions given by the department as to the payment of casual teachers, and would urge the Minister to give the hoards credit, for looking after the best interests of the schools and at the same time protecting the interest* of the.taxWja* I,
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1918, Page 6
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190EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1918, Page 6
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