EDUCATION AMENDMENT BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9169, 18 August 1908, Page 5

EDUCATION AMENDMENT BILL.

BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, August 17. On Saturday afternoon a deputation from the Southland Teachers' Institute met Mr J. A. Hanan, M.P., Chairman of the Parliamentary Education Committee, and discussed some aspects of the Education Amendment Bill. The deputation assured Mr Hanan that the Southland teachers cordially approved of the motives of, the B:ll, and recognised that its introduction as law, even without alteration, would do good to large numbers of teachers. The deputation wished not to raise objectiuns, but to make a few suggestions concerning the promotion o f teachers. It was pointed out that an assistant coming from a lower position to a higher one might possibly be in the anomalous position of having for three years to work at a lower salary than an assistant working at a maximum salary in a position next below him. The raising of the minimum salary in a few instances would dispose of the anomaly. Answering a question regardingadditional assistants, Mr II man ex plained that it would be a matter for the Board to assign the position in the case where a new position was created, and where a ikw teacher would receive a greater salary than the original member of the staff. Mention was made of the main objection to the salaries scheme in " that it still permitted a reduction ] ' of salary in case of a teacher whose , ' school, through a reduced average, ' had been lowered in grade. Mr Hanan informed the deputation that this objection had been care- " fully considered by the Committee, and it was proposed to meet it by - adding a clause to the effect that a 3 teacher liable to reduction in salary " in the circumstances mentioned shall " continue to receive unreduced pay lor two years, thus giving the Education Board the oppportunity of effecting suitable transfers.