SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THE RAILWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 7

SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THE RAILWAYS.

Sir.-r-Ttis is an interesting position. : On the eve'.of 'the general! election';the Ministry extended- certain increases of salary ;.. to ... the teachers.•'■.' True, Mr. Jowlds read an. unfavourable interpretation; into the Act, but under, the pressure of the impending elections caved.: in; Now the Government withdraw by regulation muchi that - Parliament.; sanctioned by' ; Act. Of .we shall be told that the Education Department' is paying the, same, but as..bo--tween:the ijtaxpayer and the '.teacher the. withdrawal ,is ■ effected all 'the same..' L.wonder what the; teachers think.' "Timeo, Danaos./ao dona'ferrates" seems to apply.- The matter ; as It.:affects: is.purely a boot" keeping one, but -prior''to the olections there: was'no'ihint.of it,,arid,as I have "said.: in. the case of many teachers the increase of salary is extinguished, if hot.'.'more than/extinguished. This is-Liberalism.: Incidentally also it is.fair dealing, I'suppose. •' Not that miich sympathy can ba felt :ftr those whose" votes. were .in-' fluenc'ed'by -the Act. : They'.ought- to, have had sense to realise ,the position.—l am, etc., : ;,., : -"7-r-V--':":v;"--v'! : 5 -"' r "--::':- '■' .FABIIER.'