TEACHERS' PENSIONS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2126, 18 April 1914, Page 8

TEACHERS' PENSIONS

PEOTESf AGAIKST DEDFOKONS, (By TclegrapJi.-PMss. ilESeeiation.) ,; . ' ~;'■ ' A«cWatidj AprrJ 27f : - .Ouo aspect, of' the peuitiovi of super--aniiuatctt teachers'.'-wSo cn-doiiTour' to Msppleihient their- retiring aiitfiVaiice by :casual work for other"'Departments of tlio Civil SoTtieo, was discussed by the teacliers .of Auckland' t-hjs- irioruhis ai ■a meetisg of tlio Pistrfet Braach of the New Zealand Edtieatioßal Institute, Sir,: G, Lippjatt moved:- '"lliat the mstitute take imnacdiifte aqtion to prevent aiij; dedtiotion befeg Diado from the 'pension of aay.'.teacfer when the. teaoWs. total 'inco-iiip fr-om' puhlie up tiroes," iuoliidiug. pension., is 'net- above

Mr. Lippiatt pointed to. a case whicS had -come iiude-r' his n'otieo whero ;i teacliOT who l-iad'.reti-md at a safary of £120 was entitled e-»Jy.. to a miniiimiH pension of £52 a.year, .fliis obviously \vas aot, a living «-age, jujd'tho teavter mapaged to get emptoyiE-efit ivitli one of the Gfts-c-nifiient, Depart-En-euts' at £1 10s. ,a- week.. This, calculated as £78 a, year, made,, together ' with tlio pensioit'or £-52 a year", a total of nioro' tlmu thp annual salary of-£190: at which this teacher had retired, tiio Govoritomrt had iteimeclvatoty. docked- thev penstflu, so that -t-ITO total, income Of tho teacher BbotiJcJ. not e.K*eed .£-120, *-li- was ri-4t enough, Mr. Lippiatt. said, to prevent a-highly pensioned officer "from tiuduiv .augmenting Ms faooiaoj-. ljui- it was questionable wjwtiier any salary fess t-.han-.£200 was .a decotit liririg wage for a-married man, . Tho deduction to which he- wsa taking cxoni>Hou was niade oflly frhero a luan was doing publisj work. A jwjiswned"'teacher nu&lit ma.ko any !ijcet»& he couM in a private way, as for iflstauct) in busiiioss. Pensions paid to teachers wc-ro really tlwir-owu sav-hig?~-tlioir -own. donations t«i tho sriper-<M))ina-tiou fund—with accrued interest If'.a. man. was doing sionio pubiio work ho was surely. giVing.aij' equivalent-of the uwiki.t he received for it md to tiiak© <rl»;diir.tions from liis. poitisibu in such circuffistanccs seemed particularly unfair. ' . .

■ The. motion was adopted .alrnost unanimously and ■, will bo forwarcVd as- a remit for consideration At the annual meeting of the Now .Zealand Educational Institute iis July.