TEACHERS' SALARIES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 36, 6 November 1920, Page 7

TEACHERS' SALARIES

9 (To the Editor.) Sir}—l read a letter in your Tjsne or Vast .Saturday signed by "3b Teacher." ■iiitl .1 nßrec entirely with him that no me knows what salary thsy ought to (jet as from February 1 next. A Departmental officer stated in reply to your rmery 'that, the teacher correspondent *as rpij.irded a? the maximum of' his ■;rade, and received next year an additional ,110 country allowance, bringing his salary jip to .£-140, which amount included liouso allowance of .£4O. Nou, Sir. in the Gazette published October 28 l <i*t there J» R proviso In amended regulation? sayine that "a teacher will receive an addit'onal ,£lO in schools of tirade T to TTTb unless such increment would mate his salary higher than the maximum of the crade of salary for his vofition, etc." Tills seems to me that country allowance only Riven to those teachers bslow the maximum, and most of us will never see it. AVe still must live In the country, and I think the Minister nf Education should alter this before it is too late. Can the Education Department or the Minister justify this mean trick to the down-trodden country teachers? Jt is lilie a thunderbolt to us after beinpr told that t.lic increased country allowance could not be paid till next February, which really means to most of us i.evcr. -I am, etc., 31) TEACHES.