COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9107, 5 June 1908, Page 7

COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS

At the annual meeting of the Country School Committees' Association at Dunedin, the following resolutions were carried:— That the Government be urged to rmakemore adequate provision for payment of teachers in country districts, fix a minimum salary, and .■give increments for good service. That proper and adequate provision be made for supplying teachers' . residences with reasonable conveni- • ences. That a better system of heatiig ' be provided in schools; that comio"l----able rooms be provided school chil•tlren to change wet garments and boots, and that they be furnished " with separate lockers ' That the Education Board be re- • commended to defray in future the full cost of painting and distempering schools. The Education Boards and committees, from their local knowledge, • are best qualified to make provision ■ for conveyance of children, i That at the annual examination pupils obtaining proficiency certificates be eligible for admission to . secondary schools at the beginning of ■ the following year, and be entitled to two years' free tuition. That the attention of the Minister tbe directed to the salaries and staffing of the District High Schools and more liberal provision be made, also that District High Schools be under "the control pf the Education Boar;?. That travelling allowances be paid teachers when shifting. That a Council of Education be •established. That in justice to country children new method allowing scholarships be promoted; that the conference views with concern the weakening of local interest, owing to the manner :in which the central authority is asserting itself; that the attention •of the Minister of Education be directed to the fact that the whole education system is viewed too much from the standpoint of city schools; • that the/ schools of the Dominion should be divided into two divisions —city and rural—and that inodifica tion of classification of schools, of 'payment, find promotion of teachers, «o£ standards of education, and of inspection of schools is urgently required to do justice to rural districts, which although they contain the vast majority of schools, the ■♦children are made subordinate to city schools.