TEACHERS SCALE OF SALARIES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 August 1901, Page 4

TEACHERS SCALE OF SALARIES.

[PBBPRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington', Aug 24. A deputation from the North Canterbury women teachers' association waited on the Premier and Minister for Educa-

tion this morning to complain of the salaries proposed for women under the Colonial scale of salaries recommended by the Teachers' Salaries Commission. They pointed out that the Commission had evidently taken for their model the Otago School in which the hi<rh»9t saW ies paid to wom-ii wtp £155 t<i £165 which they regarded as the maximum to which womon attiin in North Canterbury. However, very few would receive anything like that and the majority would be receiving £llO or less for very responsible duties. The Association contends that if women did the same work as men they were entitled to the same pay. There were no doubt as to the value of the work dono by women teachers.

The Premier in replying said his sympathies were with the deputation the Gov> eminent did nos desire to place women teachers at a disadvantage in any national scale. The deputation would, howover, have to go before Parliament and give evidence on the petition in support of their claims and if that was done he thought members of Parliament would do no injustice to the women teachers of the colony. The Minister for Education addressed the deputation and said that it wouid strengthen their case very much if they could give evidence and the support of women in other parts of the colony.