Teachers’ Salaries Commission.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 151, 18 May 1901, Page 3

Teachers’ Salaries Commission.

Dunedin-, May 15. Tba Teachers' Salaries Commission opened this morning; The E-av. T. B. Fraser, chairman of the Otago Board, stated that nothing would be gained by the colonial scale unless for general advantage of education. He would suggest capitation of £5 or for all schools, with attendance oelow fifty-one, and over that xd 15s. The suggestion of equal pay for m-n ami wamm ws most suUl-;!i and dir iimontal to the community and tho teachers. There should be a scale for the town and a scale for tho coun'ry schools. He favoured a superannuation scheme. He would do nothing to reduce the salaries of assistants. Mr James Mitchell, a member of tho education Board, complimented th e secretary for Education on -seeing the propriety of amending ;.hu suggested scales of stalling and salaries- in tho direction of what prevailed in Otago. ' SO very teacher ought to have his salary determined by his own qualifications and length of service, and the Board ought to have the power of piecing that teacher exactly where it was thought the greatest point of good would be done. Unless Parliament was prepared to go that length he thought it would be doing no good in adopting tho colonial scale. Mr P. Or. Bryde,-secretary of tho ■Education Board, .said he did not favour a colonial scale of salaries, because lie believe:! that teachers would bo better paid by the hvirds than by the (rovernnioufe. Taking them ail round Otago teachers were better paid then in other district.''. In schools of from fiLoon to thiriy pupils he- thought tbx-y were underpaid.