TEACHERS' SALARIES
Sir,—ln your report on November iof the Wellington Public School Assistant Masters' Association meeting I read: "The veriest child in economics could see that with the ■ fall in the purchasing power of the'sovereign to 13s. the value of a teacher's enlary had fallen 65 per cent." This puzzled me a good deal. I thought at first they had added the rise in tho cost of living to.tho drop in the value of the sovereign, but I see now that they have mistaken the fourth term in a. simple proportion sum:—2os. , 135.: .6100: a percentage. Even the veriest child above the Fourth Standard should be able to sliow them that the fall from 20s. to 13s. represents a loss of 35 per cent. And sorao of us who have not had either a rise or a war bonus wonder why the teachers need an "all-round increase of 50 per cent." io •make that up; though, of course, we can eeo it would be very nieo.—l am, etc., ' ■ D. J. BRENT. November 6.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 39, 9 November 1918, Page 3
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173TEACHERS' SALARIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 39, 9 November 1918, Page 3
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