SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1919, Page 4

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 2. The Secondary Schools Assistants' Association carried a resolution urging that as teachers were obliged to undergo a long and expensive course of training the salaries be further materially increased, and brought into line with those of higher officers in the public service and more lucrative profession. After considerable discussion, the following motion was carried: That in any scale of salaries drawn up for secondary assistants, the pay of men and women should be equal for equal work and for equal qualifications, whichever forms the basis for such scale, but married assistants should receive in addition to their salaries adequate allowance proportional to the number of their dependants. For the purposes of this clause married teachers shall be the same as laid down in the regulations for primary schools in the Education Act of 1914. The conference reaffirmed resolutions passed by the Council of Education regarding the payment of superannuation as computed on the three best years of service, >and also in respect to the payment of work done outside school hours.

It waß resolved that every endeavour be made by the Association to include the ordinary University course of four years for the degrees 8.A., B's.C., M A., or M's.C., in years that count as years of service for pensions, The following officers were elected: President, Mr. P. Drummond; vice-presi-dent, Misa Jj, Bing (Christchurch); executive, Messrs. P. H. Campbell (lJunedin), A. C. Gifford (Wellington), R, M. Laing (Christchurch), C. H. Rockel (New Plymouth); auditor, Mr. W. Alexander.