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Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1922, Page 4

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THE EDUCATION GAZETTE. USELESS TO TEACHERS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. “We talk about retrenchment, but here is an instance of the Education Department wasting money a publication which is not worth that much,” remarked the secretary of the Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association (Mr. F. Martyn Renner), at 'the annual conference, with a snap of the fingers. He referred to the extremely unsatisfactory circulation of the Education Gazette, as condemned in a remit under discussion. - Frequently, he said, the Gazette reached teachers so late that it became a prehistoric curiosity. The Gazette, he declared, had been' an out-and-out failure, and in its present form it was an absolute waste of money. (Applause.)) From the point of view of the secondary school teacher, its chief function was to enable him to see what positions were vacant, and for that purpose had turned out absdlufely useless, for by the time it was delivered it was too late for the recipient to apply for a vacancy by the closing date. In spite of freejuent protests by the association, the department still persisted in wasting money on it. ~ . The chief inspector of secondary schools (Mr. James Drummond) said that the department would welcome any suggestion that would tend towards economy. The remit was carried by a very large majority.