TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 6

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

HIGHER STANDARD WANTED. At a meeting of the executive committee jfcf th«, Secondary' Schools Assistants' 'Association" of Zealand, held in the I Wellington College <»i Thursday last,'the .(following resolutions (which have been 'forwarded to the Minister for Education) !;trero passed;— ! "(a) The executive of the New Zealand /Secondary Schools Assistants' Association 'expresses the fullest, sympathy with the Efforts made by the 3fow- Zealand-Educa-tional Institute to'.procuTe luigher.aalarits ifor teachers.an -primary schools, and calls jtho Minister for .Edaioatioal'a attention to !.the inadequate salaries paid to teachers 4n secondary schools." , "(b) Taking into consideration tho iri'itieased cost of living within the last de'cado, and tho fact that "most teachers in Becondary schools are appointed to positions that necessitate such teachers being *([radnates, thus entailing a three or four '.years' university course, this executive us stronriy of the opinion that tho mini,num sauary for -secondary school teuchers ■should be per annum." "(c) The executive points out to the Minister for Education that the interests of secondary school education "are not being served - in the best possible way, as long as great . numbers of secondary school teachers ,are forced' to supplement their inadequate salaries by undertaking private tuition out of school hours." "(d) The executive approves i the principle of tho payment of definite annual increments to salaries beginning, at' the above-mentioned minimum of JE2OO. Such increments to be paid until .the first assis-. tants in tlio larger secondary schools of New Zealand received a salary of ,£soo.per - annum." t "(e) Tho executive is of the opinion that the Government should increase tho payment per head for each free-place pupil, to enable governing bodies of secondary pchools to pay adequate salaries /to secondary school teachers." "(f) This executive regrets that the Government .has not yet granted, in spite of frequent requests, the same superannuation conditions to' teachers' as havo been granted to Civil Servants, -who have their pensions computed on tho 'three best years of service,' whereas teachers have thoir pensions computed on the 'threo last years of service." . , ' . . "(g) This executivo regrets that tho Minister for Education has announced the postponement of educational legislation, and sincerely hopes that he will, in view of thp urgent nature of tho desired reforms, rcconsider his decision."