POSTPONEMENT OF PAPER,

The monthly meeting of tbe Dimedin branch of the Olago EducatiiKal Institute wa3 held in the Normal Sshool on Saturday. Mr Ee!d (of Forbury), president of the Branch, occupied tho chair. There was only a limited attend ance of members.
Mr G. P. Bell, of N.E. Harbour, wrote to the effect that he wa=i unable, principally through indisposition, to read any paper at tha present mac-ting, bub st ited that he would be glad to do so on some future occasion during the season.
APPOINTMENT OF TEAOHEHS.
Mr White Pa:d he prosed to as-k the Branch to express an opinion with rigard to tho above question— to siy, natndy, whether they thought tho power of appointment should lie *olely with the Education Board or solely with the School Committees, or else whether some system should not be iiistifcuted whereby both bodies would have an equal vr ice in the matter. He also woald ask the Branch to give an opinion as to tho proper interpretation of the4sth section of the Act ? relative to "con- Bultation " as to these appointments (between the Board and committees,.
