TEACHERS' SALARIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 13

TEACHERS' SALARIES

NEW SCHEME IN OPERATION

The teachers' new salary scheme recently approved by the Government is made operative from October 1 by the Teachers' Salaries Regulations, which have just been issued, and which embody the necessary administrative provisions. The regulations are lengthy, and the only salaries in the teaching service in the Dominion not provided for are those in the senior departments of. secondary, technical, and combined schools. The scheme has necessitated the regrading of all public schools, Native schools, and intermediate schools and departments. The Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) explained some weeks ago that in the ordinary course the primary and the Native schools would have been regraded on February 1, 1939, on the average number of pupils on the roll during the four weeks ended September 30 last. He wished, however, to avoid as much as possible two gradings of schools within six months, and had decided that, except for intermediate schools and departments and secondary departments of district high schools, the grading determined for October 1, 1938, should remain in" force until January 31, 1940. He had decided that for the period just mentioned the primary departments of public schools and Native schools should be graded on the number of pupils on the roll on September 16, 1938.

For a third statutory offence of drunkenness, John Joseph Corby, alias John McConville, a ship's fireman, aged 38, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.