TEACHERS' SALARIES COMMISSION.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 April 1901, Page 4

TEACHERS' SALARIES COMMISSION.

[per pkess association.]

Wellington, April 23.

The meeting of tho Teachers' Salaries Commissioners was held today. It was decided that the proceedings should be open to the press. Tho Commissioners resolved to hold a sitting of the various Educational districts of the colony. G. Hogben, Secretary of Education, said that ho was authorised to appear before the Commission and give it ali the assistance in his power. Ho laid before tho Commission a memorandum prepared some months ago for the Minister of Education in the form of a suggested colonial scale of the staff and the salaries. He urged that the capitation basis of payments to the Boards would render tho Co'onial. scab impossible and that they could not get a uniform scale of salaries without a uniform scale of staff. He had no intimation whatever of any policy that should touch the discretion of the Board in saying what kind of teachers they should employ, the only difference being that Government would lay down what staff there should bo and what each teacher should be paid. The scheme had not been adopted by the Government. It was bo added, very much bolter under such a scheme for tho Boards, and not for tho Department to pay tho teachers. The Commission then adjourned.