TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8810, 11 May 1907, Page 3

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

I (Per, Press Association.! Invercargiix, May 10. k deputation from Southland Branch of iffi Institute waited on Hon. G. W. v\M to-day, to draw his attention to °?"Z s„ the colonial scale of salaries. Inrincipal objection was that the scale cnlmics was based r,n average attendance. '.■Minister admitted that the system had Vet reached perfection. He pointed out otthe No >f Zealand system of local conS made it less easy to have a general tern of promotion. Parliament was ver likely to accede to a proposal to nually increase teachers' salaries white nool attendance was dropping. At the ffle time where from causes beyond ichers - control, the attendance fell oif ' teacher should have the opportunity of nsferrini; before any material deducn n ts made in salary. The question of how to best arrange matters required care--ul consideratien. He expressed belief in he value of local interest in education, at was prepared to listen to Lone who might evolve abetter scheme Mile continuing the present system of Boards and committees. He invited the deputation to work out a scheme of. salaries and submit it; _ 'lho colonial scale had enormously improved the status and conditions of the majority of teaclieis in New Zealand in several ways. He did not think the decrease in the prooortion of males to females was due to Varies, but to tho desire of women to earn a living and to tho fact that their fe"es had been more largely increased. At "the same tiino ho did not deny sympathy with tho deputation and should be delimited if ho could now persuade Parliament to grant more money for educational purposes. A member ot the deputation said that tho N.Z. Institute iwas engaged drawing up a scheme ot !6alr>ries°for submission to tho Minister.