NO REGARD FOR FACTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 20 May 1911, Page 3

NO REGARD FOR FACTS.

SECONDARY ASSISTANTS'' SALARIES. The most important question discussed at tlio annual meeting of tho Now Zealand Secondary Schools Assistants' Association on Thursday last was that of salaries, and in tho annual report of tho Executive. Committee, it was stated that the Education Department had admitted that the assistants were not adequately paid. Tho responsibility for tho existing conditions lay with tho governing bodies, who, tho Department was reported to have stated, wero not paying salaries proportionate to tho grants received. Mr. A. do B. Brandon, chairman of the Wellington College Board of Governors, was asked by a representative of Thk Dominion- yesterday for his opinion on the statement which tho Department, according to tho secondary assistants, had made with reference to tho governing bodies. He stated: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's oar." and he went on to refer to tho fact that his hoard, at any rate, had fpilo enough to do to make ends meet. '. Thai is to say, Mr. Brandon, that j the Department has been speaking i'ram an imperfect knowledgo of the facts;- 1 "No," corrected Mr. Brandon, "the Department has been speaking from a knowledge of the facts, but without regard to these facts."