INVERCARGILL NEWS.
TEACHERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Invercargill, last night. Fifteen teachers in this district have offered for service in South Africa, in the concentration camps. The Board has selected three for examination. EDUCATIONAL.
The Education Board’s report states that the demand for new schools has slackened during the past two years. The decrease in the total attendance was small last year, while the last quarter of 1901 was nearly a record, as it was also the best average, Commenting on the Teachers’ Salaries Act, objection was taken to the totally inadequate salaries for first and only assistants in schools averaging 150 to 200,, and the salaries of male assistants generally of the second and lower grades in all other schools. It was an anomaly also that assistants in 150 to 200 attendance schools got only L 8 0: and in the next grade almost double that amount. There should also be provision for payment for teaching sewing in schools of 25 to 40, and also for paying relieving teachers.
THE WEATHER. The weather has broken after a fine spell. To householders, the rain is welcome, but a few more days’ dry weather would have been appreciated by farmers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 382, 5 April 1902, Page 2
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