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NZ Truth, Issue 122, 19 October 1907, Page 6

When Bill Jennings, M.H.R., mentioned last session that a school teacher m his district, getting <£60 a year, had to supplement his income by gathering "bush weel," or fungus, he was laueheu at. On Wednesday Member Clreenslade, from up Auckland way, mentioned the case ot another dominee who had to keep the missus and four olive branches on ,£72 a year. Syme, horn the West Coast, said country teachers were expected to live on air and sleep m a tent, or under a log, or tree ; and excitable T.MeKenzie remarked that teachers as a whole, m Clod's Own Country, didn't average 7s a day,