WOMAN INSPECTORS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10477, 14 November 1911, Page 4

WOMAN INSPECTORS.

According to the writer of "Education Notes" in the New Zealand Herald, it is rumoured that a pro-po-sal will shortly be made to appoint a womoai school inspector, on the ga-ound apparently that a.& most of the teachers in the Auckland district, as elsewhere, are women, they should have a representative on the inspectorate. It is also urged that a woman-is needed to inspect the sewing. It may be admitted that there is something in the latter argument ; the ordinary school inspector, who is supposed to be as; nearly omniscient as any human- being qan well be, is not much, better qualified than most other men to pronounce upon, the merits of a long seam or hem,. Whether it is worth while to appoint a woman inspector, on account of the sewing alone is for the Auckland Education Board to settle.' There will be ho great grief among the women teachers if they decide not to do so, for though the teasers, in meeting assembled, supported the proposal, it is understood that- privately some of them at least are strongly opposed to it % As one young woman remarked, "I'd sooner anv day have my work inspected by b, bear of a man than by a cat of a woman."