Breaking Down of Teachers.

While an application for sick-leave by a female teacher was being considered at last Tuesday's meeting of the Hawke's Hay Education Board, Inspector Hill remarked that during the whole course of his experience he ha never known so many lady employees of the Board to break down absolutely in a similar period as during the last twelve months. This he attributes to the over-exacting demands of the Education Department's new syllabus.—Dunedin 'Evening Star,' September 12, 1906.