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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9022, 8 January 1908, Page 4

The Teachers' Conference held at Auckland had another fling; a& what was termed the "iniquitous system of payment of salaries on average attendance.", The injustice oil the system was forcibly pointed, out by several speakers, and some instances of individual hardship arising out of it were mentioned by Mr 0. D. Flamank, an Otago delegate. He mentioned the case of a teacher, who had been 13 years in the service, and was receiving the princely salary of £llO a year. This man, he said, had a delicate wife and a family to support, but in consequence of a drop- in the attendance at his school his salary would probably fall to £9O. The case of another teacher, a widower, with' seven children, whose salary was being reduced through the some cause from £l2O to £9O, was also referred to. "I think this is scandalous" was Mr Flamank's comment on the existence of such a system. We entirley agree with the comment, and trust the Legislature will, next session, see it way to put an end to a system which isj utterly unjust and often absolutely cruel in its operation.

It is based on no foundation of logic or equity, and reflects little credit upon : its authors or the Parliament which adopted it.