EDUCATION IN AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 791, 6 April 1905, Page 3

EDUCATION IN AUCKLAND.

; THE SALARY QUESTION. (Pec Press. Association.) AUCKLAND, April 5. Mr Parr moved at to-day's meeting of the Board of Education "That, in view of the many anomalies, anil of the serious injustice frequently arisjng out of the present system of renumerating teachers according to the average attendance only, the board begs -to urge upon the Minister of

- I-w u[iuu iiiu iuuusier 01 Education the necessity, in the best 'interests of primary education, of alecring the basis of payment of salV arfesso that the length of service and classification of the teacher may also be taken into accounL in lixing the salaries. Tlie number of scholars in the Auckland provincial district at the end of last year was 30,209, showing an increase of 949 above 1903. The average attendance increased 25,114 to 26,107. One hundred and fifty-nine prosecutions for breaches of the School Attendance Act were conducted by the truant officer during the year, and convictions were obtained in every case but one. The total number of teachers employed by the Auckland Education Hoard a,t tip end of last year was 834 i (368 males and 4(Hi females). The , proportion of male teachers is steadily growing, in spite of the meagre salary allowed them on entering the service. At the close of last year there were in Auckland province 427 schools in operation (including 72 schools taught half time), and according to the Department's reckoning of two half time schools as one school, the number is 391.