TEACHERS' PAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 10

TEACHERS' PAY

HEADMASTER'S CRITICISM

CHILDREN AFFECTED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, This Day. The. action of the Government .in cutting education grants and allegedlyfailing to face its obligations in connection with teachers was criticised by Mr. H. G. Hall, headmaster of the Hamilton West School, at the annual meeting of the . parents' association last evening.

"Education is the: last Department on which wo should economise, yet coincident with the cutting of education grants there is ample money for palatial buildings of all kinds, including new railway stations, and new picture theatres," said Mr. Hall. "Such a policy is crippling the children's future. Under the new rationing scheme teachers are badly underpaid."

• Mr. Hall said that four of his own staff were receiving, after the extraction of various dues, considerably less that £60 a year. It was particularly disheartening for these teachers, most of whom were in their early twenties, to hajfe to-give a full day's work on less than £1 a week.

Ho instanced an anomaly by stating that several boys in standard 6 were earning more by Belling papers than were their teachers.