TEACHERS' PAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 12

TEACHERS' PAY

PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT

The Wellington School Committees' and Educational Federation recently sent a letter to school committees asking if any teachers were employed in their school under the new system (£6O a year, and staying the full twelve months), and if they were actually teaching classes where a permanent teacher should be employed; and if so, what was the amount of salary the permanent teacher would be receiving if employed? The chairman (Mr. F. H. Porter) stated at a meeting of the federation last night that the replies received indicated no case where a rationed teacher (£6O a year) was displacing a permanently einploj'ed teacher, as per grading salary. Mr. L. J. McDonald said that the position in this country was discreditable, and could not go on without affecting the children. Mr. C. H. Pinnock said that a number of teachers were out of work, and tho Minister had done something by providing a scheme to meet the situation to some extent. After some discussion, a motion by Mr. L. J. McDonald was adopted in the following form: —"The action of the Minister in providing for permanent employment of teachers previously , working under the rationed scheme is' appreciated by this organisation .from the point of view of the advantage accruing to the children, but we deplore the meagre amounts being paid, which amount to approximately a 300 per cent, salary cut as compared with what they are entitled to, and urge the restoration of the full salaries scale."

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