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the Mr. and Mrs. Martin Latin, of Williams Lake.
The bride is the former Alix Maryon Belmas, of Van-
couver. For story of the wedding see Page Two,
Second Section. . — Tribune photo

School Boards to Conciliate

The .following release from the B.C. School
Trustees’ Association dealing with the meeting of
representatives of the 25 school boards involved in
dispute with the B.C.T.F., was received in The
Tribune office after an earlier story on Page Four,
Second Section, had gone to press..—Editor’s note.

KELOWNA—Twenty-five B.C.
school boards which fixed sala-
ries early this year, holding a
special meeting at Kelowna at
the weekend, adopted Education
Minister L. R. Peterson's for-
mula for resolying their ~diffi-
culties with teachersy

that since they had “ fixed”
salaries only after negotiations
with teachers failed to produce
results, conciliation would cover
a good deal of the same ground.

Others said that regardless of
what happened earlier, the Min-
ister and the executive of the

This means an immediate
. = aes 5 |B-C-S.T-A. were doing their ut-
start on contiliation in the 25 ‘

= most now to find a solution that
districts.

z would end the deadlock, and
A. M. Harvey, of Ocean Falls,

that conciliation was the most
named by the) trustees to work| ajrect route toward this goal.
wih Miss Mollie z

of discussion

Minister's for-

Three hours
Federation, will ask Miss Cot-|centred on the
tingham today (Monday) to join| mula.
him in setting up .an itinerary. B.C.S.T.A. president Lorne C.
Miss Cottingham has been en-| aggett said at the conclusion of
gaged with the annual- conven-/the session that the. 25° boards
tion of the Teachers’ Federation were “unanimous in feeling
for the past week. that conciliation procedures
Decision of the 25 boards was| would work, and that the unsat-
unanimous. isfactory sityation could he ree-
Some of the delegates repre-| tifled,
senting the 25 boards argued at| Peterson
the beginning of their meeting

within the terms of the
formula, providing

jthat no threats of blacklisting,

strike or other pressure tactics

are permitted to handicap the

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“ Trustees are prepared to go
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factory settlement of the issues.”

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Analysis of School Act:

Made by Local Inspector

The following is the first part of a two-part

analysis of the new Publ

ic School Act as prepared

for readers of The Tribune by School Inspector

Douglas Chamberlain.

article will appear next week.—Bditor’s note.

The Public Schools Act (1958)
has introduced legislation that
will affect the administration of
schools in British Columbia In
several ways. The changes that
‘re of the greatest concern, at
this moment are those that deal
with the procedure to be fol-
lowed in the reaching of an
respecting teachers’
salaries. The contentious Sec-
tion 47, under which boards
fixed salaries, has been restated,
expanded and changed to apply
only to districts that do not
have an existing agreement.
Other sections of the act limit
its force and provide for three
separate steps to be taken in
reaching an agreement.

On or before the 30th day of
September in any year, either
party to an existing agreement
may approach the other party
and ask that negotiations be

commenced. Section 138 .(1
states that the parties “ shall
attempt to reach by negotiation
a mutually satistactory new

agreement or modification of the
existing agreement.” Should
there not he agreement bythe
31st day of October, the matter
shall be submitted» to two con-
cilators, one of whom shall be
appointed by the Board of
School Trustees and the other by
the association of teachers con-
cerned. This conciliation shall
be concluded by the 15th day of
November.

If the conciliation is unsue-
cessful by that date, the matter
shall then be submitted to. arbi-
tration. This arbitration must
be completed by December 21,
and the award will take effect
on January 1 of the succeeding
year. It is interesting to note
that if the conciliation -is un-
successful that ‘* the conciliators
shall, by notice in writing de-
livered to both or all parties
concerned, submit the matter to
arbitration, ‘and the notice shall
be deemed to he a submission of
the matter to arbitration.”

In other words, the arbitration
is compulsory. It is further
Provided that the arbitration
shall be final and binding upon
both parties and that it is not
subject to the outcome of any
cther arbitration held for any
other purpose under the act.
These provisions are designed tu
prevent the possibility of a dead-
lock arising in the attempts to

The second part of this

reach an agreement concerning
salaries of teachers.

DIVISION OF ELECTORATE

Another matter of great in-
terest to the people of British
Columbia is the division of the
electorate into three groups.
This has been done in order to
make the qualifications for
voters and for office holders
identical to those provided under
the-Municipal Act. In this con-
nection, it should be noted that
the qualifications of voters for
residents of the Village of Wil-
ams Lake are the same as those
set out under the provisions of
the Municipal Act, whereas those
electors who are resident within
the school district but not with-
in the Village of Willams Lake
are defined under the provisions
of the Taxation Act. There is
ho practical difference between
the two definitions.

Owner-electors are persons
who are British subjects of the
full age of 21 years, who are
owners of real property within
a municipality’ Corporations
which are owners are also listed
as owner-electors, Resident-
electors are persons who are
British subjects of the full age
of 21 years, who have resided
continuously in the school dis-
trict for months. Tenant-
electors are persons who are
British subjects of the full age
of 21 years who are and have
been continuously -for not less
than six months tenants in oceu-
pation of real property
within the school district. Cor-
porations whicli are tenants may
also be entered as_ tenant-
electors.

By

It should be noted that names
of owner-electors will be auto-
matically placed upon the voters’
list. However, names of resi-
dent-electors and tenant-electors
will only be placed upon the list
if the individuals épncerned sub-
mit the necessary -statutory
declarations to the secretary-
treasurer of the School Board.
Such resident-electors and ten-
ant-electors must renew their
application to be on the voters’
list annually. Otherwise, their
names will not appear.
QUALIFICATIONS

In the past it. has been the
custom for the boards to call

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