SCHOOL TEACHERS SALARIES

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 March 1901, Page 4

SCHOOL TEACHERS SALARIES

A special meeting of the Grey Education Board will be held this evening to consider the question of teachers salaries. A good number of teachers received no increase.

The following is the proposal formulated by Mr Blair chairman of the Wellington Board(1) Aided schools are to receive capitation at too rate of £5 per head of average attendance, instead of £3 15s; (2) that teachers in charge of schools with an average attendance of from fifteen to twenty will receive an increase i f £2O each, making the salary £IOO per annum ; (3) that teachers in charge of schools with aa average attendance of from twenty to twenty-five will receive an increase of £2O each, making the salary £l2O par annum; (4) that teachers in charge of schools with an average attendance of from twenty-five to thirty will receive an increase of £lO per annum, making the salary £l5O per annum; (5) that all cx-pupil toacha-s have an increase of £3 per annum; (G) that all pupil teachers have an iac.teasc of £5 per annum ; (7) that the scale or assistants bo made more liberal, and thensalaries gradually improved with the increase of the attendance.

At the meeting of the Hawkes Bay Education Board to-day the Selection Committee submitted the scheme for (lie distribution of the extra grant for teachers’ salaries. It proposed that seventy-two touchers’ salaries between £IOO and £2OO be increased by 1 per cent; fifty-nine teachers’ salaries up to £IOO by 10 per cent.; and fifty-four second, third, and fourth year pupil teachers’ salaries be increased by 74 per cent. The recommendations were ordered to be forwarded to the department. The Christchurch Education Board lias accepted the alterations made by the Department in its proposals of the allocation of the Parliamentary vote in aid of teachers’ salaries. The Wanganui Education Board resolved, on Monday, on the motion of Mr Pirani, to call the attention of the Education Department to the fact that salaries paid to teachers in the district would have been lower in the past only for the fact that the Board’s allowances to school committees were based on a very inadequate scale, and to urge that in proposing any additions to salaries the low allowance to school committees in the district should be taken into consideration.