TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 162, 8 January 1914, Page 5

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

.METHOD Oi<' COMPUTATION. MERIT INSTEAD OF ATTENDANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Auckland, Last Night.

Tho New Zealand Kducatioual Insti- | n into discussed tho salary question today. The executive moved the following p reuiit,-.- "That ill tlie proposed Educa- p tion Aet the substitution of some l)P.t- d ter basis than attendance for tho com- < putation of salaries'he made.'' I In moving the remit, Mr V. A. Par- 1 kinson fWolliiigtoii) said thai they had v reached a point when they could reason- a ably ask, and hope to' obtain, that i teacher-; should he paid, not .according l to lcn.atli of service or attendance, but 1 according to the value of their work. 1 They hoped to get a, grading system t that would place a teacher as near as 1 possible in his right situation on tho i professional ladder and pay him accord-' | ingiy. If liiis scheme were adopted tlie State would pay the imii and not his < position. If they were fortunate enough ! to oiii ain a national system tlie scheme > could he obtained easily. In outlining 1 his scheme, the speaker said that the ! schools of the Dominion would he ' divided into dilVerent grades, and to each yrade teachers would lie drafted according to merit. Tlie grading would he decided by the inspectors. Cnder this scheme a leather would be made independent of any elements in his social environment, and would be imiunne from through decrease in the average roll of his '-vliool. Mr 0. 1). r'lamank (Otago). in secondin;;' t'iie remit, said that though last year he supported a scheme for the payment of salaries based on the average roll. lie wa = now convinced that a satisfactory scheme could lie forninhited without reference to attendance at all. Ail amendment wa» moved by Mr .1. Kcllv (Otagol. that the eomnutation of salary should he based on cli'hiencv and service. All people, he said, were creatures of circumstance, hut pavticilariv so were teachers, for thev siill'evcd from circumstances over which (hey had no control. Mr Dugean illawko's Kay), in secondin-' t.lu) (iiiieiidmenl. said thai the sense ol injustice felt bv Hie majority of the , emery tearhev. „f the dominion could not do otherwise than ail'ict the eiriciencv of their work-. The aiiiendm.nt was carried hy 31 voti s to -12. At a later stage of 11..' t>vnceedin;v\ ' the following retni l , forwarded bv the ; llawkc's liav 'lnstitute, was adopted: • ■'That this In-'italic regrets that it was ; found ini|iossili'e for Parliament to deal | ' with the salary que.tion hist year, and considers that tlie new scheme, vvh 11 1 apnroved in IPII. should lie made retro--ipecfive and operative as, ,'roni January 1 ], I'll 4."