TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 August 1913, Page 5

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

A PROTEST FROM THE WAIRARAPA. At a meeting of the Executive of the Wairarapa branch of the Teachers' Institute, held in Masteiton on •Saturday afternoon; the President moved the following motion, which was carried unanimously! "Wherea3 the teaching profession of the Dominion, though recognised as the most-important body of civil servant's 'iniithe,country, has for years, lain under grave disabilities, the worst of which are'totally unreliable methods of propomotion and totally inadequate pay j whereas, necessarily, the demands of a progressive democracy are making increasingly higher demands on the capacity, energy, and integrity of the teacher, which he has with very slight encouragement striven his best to meet; and whereas the income private and public of the Dominion has, during the last decade, been immensely enhanced, this body of teachers, representative of the Wairarapa schools .respectfully and emphatically protests against the decision of the Minister of Education not to introduce amending legislation this session." ,iMy, G. R. Sykes, M.P., wired consenting to meet the teachers of the Wairarapa' at, a meeting on August 16th, and Sir Walter Buchanan, M.P., is to bo interviewed at Carterton by Messrs Burns, M.A., Beechy and Brocket*, with' regard to teachers' disabilities.