RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
FOR COUNTRY TEACHERS. A degree of opposition and a round of disapproval that had not been anticipated by the mover was the result of the introduction of a remit at the Educational Institute conference suggesting that a glebe of from five to twenty acres, as was found practicable, should be added to country school teachers' residences. A number of delegates expressed their disapproval of the subject of the motion by refusing to take it seriously and by speaking to it in humorous vein.
A,lady teacher, who chose to support the remit, pointed out several of tl\e advantages of the glebe according to her own experience. Another speaker sftHl that for the benefit of the teacher who' was interested in agriculture, and also for the children he instructed, an opportunity of acquiring such areas of ground should be permitted. Yet another speaker pointed out the value of a glebe to a teacher who was far removed from the railway and had to keep a horse or pony. The remit was adopted in the following form: "That in general, the country school area be from live to twenty acres, and be divided into playground, gardens, ground for children's horses, tod ground to be known as a residenfciatarea for the use of the teacher."
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1920, Page 7
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