The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1885. THE APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2006, 3 June 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1885. THE APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS.

Now that tho Education Act has been in existenco for eight years, the Wellington Education Board professes to have found a way out of the difficulty regarding the voice of the local committees in the Appointment of teachers. Hitherto it has been the custom to forward all the applications for .any appointment to the Committee concerned. The practice, \v,e bejieve, prevailed throughout the colony, and k certainly in accordance with the spirit of the Act, which provides that all appointments shall be subject to the approval of the Committee concerned. A dilemma has, however, occasionally occurred through the Board wishing to appoint one teacher, and the Committee another, and no satisfactory way out of itlnißever been found, The Wellington Board now appears to be of opinion that it is unnecessary to forward all applications to the Committee, and, in the ease of an appointment to the Mastertrn school, forwarded only the successful one. The members of the Board are, no doubt, of opinion that they will save themselves a giv?at deal of trouble by adopting his course, because they would avoid all risk of being at loggerheads with Committees; but we hardly think that they will enj ly such an immunity long. A wording to the spirit of the \ct the one has as good a voice in the appointment of a teacher a? the other, and though this position may bo distasteful to the Board, and lead to serious differences, it cannot be altered except by act of Parliament. To ask a Committee to express its approval or disapproval of an appointment when only one application is submitted to, it is not at all calculated to advance its usefulness, The question came before the Masterton Committee at a special meeting yesterday, when the appointment of Miss Jupp as infant mistress whs con-; sie'ered. One or two members were of opinion that the Committee should, fight the Board on the point; but the: majority came to the conclusion tjmt

such a course would do mora harm than good under the present circumstances, as the school urgently requires un additional teacher. The right of the Board to assume such a position can easily lie tested in another way, without causing delay and inconvenience in the school. We have an excellent illustration of what fighting the Board means, in the Masterton sidi) school, which might have been opened at least three months ago if the very party that had.fought hardest for it had not subordinated the opening of the school to other considerations. The Master ton Committee would not have been justified in fighting single-handed tor the cause of oil" the Committees in the colony, and would have earned the thanks of no one,