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TEACHERS' UNION

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BY MR. TOM JOHN.

The thirty-sixth annual conference of the National Union of Teachers was opened in the Pier Pavilion at Llandudno on Monday morning. Mr. G. Sharpies, of Manchester, the retiring president, occupied the chair at the morning session, when the conference was formally welcomed to Llandudno by representatives of the town and district. The conference having been received and welcomed, Mr. Sharpies vacated the presidential chair, and Mr. Tom John, of Llwynypia. School, Rhondda, was elected president of the Union for the year.

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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

Mr. Tom John, the president, then delivered his inaugural address. He said he hoped their stay at Llandudno, within sighit of the mountains and within sound of the sea, would brace them for the coming months of arduous duties, and that their educational deliberations would help the counties of Wales to still the storm that had been raging round the schools for the last two years. His native country was entitled to claim that it had made sacrifices, many and great, for education. And now that Wales realised that education in the primary schools was the one foundation on which higher education could be safely built a bright and prosperous era in the history of Gwalia would begin.

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TESTIMONIAL TO MR. TOM JOHN.

Subsequently, on the motion of Mr. Jenkins (Merthyr), a committee was formed of two representatives from each county to meet to draw out a scheme for a national testimonial to Mr. Tom John in recognition of his services to Welsh education and of the fact of his being the first Welshman to be elected president of the Union.