TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 262, 29 October 1908, Page 2

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

IM'tUU'ttJSl-ATIOX OF THE KKW LAW. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Teachers are still dissatislied with the announcement that the minimum .salaries fixed in the amended iOducation Act are not to eoiire into force at once but must l>e worked up to by inert: ments of £o .per annum. Tile Hon. (I. Fowlds, in answer tt inquiries, stated that .t!-i increase I all present teachers would cost £IO,OOI or £17,000 in addition to the cost o the increased stall's, and that it wa less anomalous to give that amount al round tlum varying amounts to one am another. The Secretary of. the Kdticaliou Is stituto says he cannot see where Ik anomaly comes in. if a salary is belo» the niinimum and that minimum repfi sents the Minister's estimate oi th lowest figure of remuneration, it : anomalous to allow the salary to ri main at an adequate ligure. Jlr. T. 31. AVilford, suggest that the teneliers should ask the Judgi of the Supreme Court for a finding under the Declaratory Judgments Act of last session. This would only cost a few shillings. Other local members have expressed tile opinion that the belief of the House when the Bill was under discussion was that the salaries would be raised to the minimum at once.

COMBATING MINISTEKS' INTERPRETATION. Feilding, Wednesday. The chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, Mr. Fred Pirani, suggests a simple means of combating the ministerial interpretation of the increase* on teachers' salaries. He points out that if the engagements of teachers holding appointments much below the new minimum salaries were terminated and they were appointed to the positions again from the beginning of next year, the salaries under the new Act would be payable as to new appointees, thus bridging over five or six years in a month.