LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS
(Snnoial to the Daily Telkobaph.) Auckland this day.
THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY I'uk retail tradesmen havo passed a resolution strongly protesting against tho compulsory Saturday half-holiday.
TEACHERS' SALAIIIES.
The Secretary of tho Wauganul Education Board has forwardod resolutions to the Auckland Board stating that in its opinion tho inducements offorod to males to enter the teaching profession aro inadequate and that tho Department will bo asked to tako into consideration the ques* tion of increasing tho salarios, Tho Auckland Hoard decided to support tho resolutions. Mr. Hobbs warned teachers against deluding themselves into tho belief that thore was any likelihood of tho Government introducing tho much-tilked-of Teachers' Superannuation Scheme, tho placing of which on anything like a satisfactory footing would involve a sum of at least £1C3,000. f.Io thought tho best thLg to do would bo to urge the Government to bring into forco tho higher scalo ofsalarios provided for by Tnbloll in the scilo drawn up by tho Toaehors* Salaries Commission,
GRANTS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS Attention was drawn at tho meeting of iho Education Board yeslorday to °tho dihtorinessof tho Government in remitting Auckland's proportion of tho building groins, nmouniiiif! to nbont .£12,000 per ntmuiu. Although ontitled to 13003 (juariorly, only 12000 had been placod to ilio credit ol tho Board for tho first quarter oi the present year, vhile in tho second quarter tho amount hail dwindled down lo £IOOO, tho Board having thus received £3500 only, instoad of £6OOO, This meant that important building work had to be shelved for want of monoy. The Board decided io briug the matter undor t.ie notice of tho Auckland memborsof Parliament with a view to their moving tho Government to give proper attention to the requirements of tho district. DEFECTIVE BRIGHT IN CHILDHEN The Education Board resolved yestor* day that tho Chief Inspector bo requested to report on the prevalence of defective oytisiglit among tho puuils in tho public schools, and to furnish his opinion as to the eauso or causes of iho same, and us to tho best moans of generally proventiu" theso defects, 0 CUSTOMS DUTIES: A RECORD Tho not Customs ditties collected at Auckland during August amounted to £76,989. This is considered a record for ono month for tho colony,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1082, 1 September 1904, Page 3
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375LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1082, 1 September 1904, Page 3
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