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Salaries of Purlic-sohool Primary Teachers. (\i. 2, Table E4.) The total amount of all salaries and allowances at the rates payable on the 31st December, 1917, was £896,046, an increase of £20,125 over the amount for the previous year, which, as the staff was no larger than in the year 1916, represents entirely increases in salary. The amount is made up as follows : £ Adult teachers'salaries .. .. .. .. .. .. 816,891 Pupil-teachers'salaries and allowances .. .. .. .. 36.415 Probationers' allowances .. .. .. .. .. .. 18.130 House allowances to head or sole teachers where residence is not provided 25.210 The above figures do not include the equivalent of house allowance where residences are provided, estimated at £31,730, nor the additional amounts paid to head teachers for the supervision of secondary departments of district high schools. The total cost of salaries and allowances (including the sum saved in house allowances) works out at £5 lis. 6d. per head of the average attendance. The corresponding figure, as nearly as can be ascertained, in New South Wales is £6 Is. 6d., Victoria £4 Bs. Id., South Australia £3 14s. 6d., and Ontario £5 os. sd. In addition to the salary-payments mentioned, a sum of £43,948 was distributed among teachers (in common with other public servants) whose salaries did not exceed £315 per annum as a war bonus to help to meet the increased cost of living. The individual amounts paid were, with certain variations, £15 in the case of married teachers and £7 10s. in the case of unmarried teachers. This amount is not included in the total salaries payable quoted above, nor in the average salaries shown in the table below. The average salaries of adult teachers in the various grades are shown in the following table : more detailed information is gwen in Table E4 in E.-2.

Average Salaries of Primary School Teachers.

The average salaries in every case show an increase ranging up to £12 12s. 3d. over the salaries of the previous year, and as far as can be judged compare favourably with the salaries paid in other countries as shown in the table below. This, however, should be read with the qualification that the possible inclusion of junior

1 1916. I 19 :7. - M L I Excluding House 1 Including House I Allowances and | Allowances and Value of Value of Residences. Residences. i Excluding House Allowances and i Value of Residences. Including House Allowances and Value of Residences. I (1.) Teachers in all schools---(a.) Men and women (b.) Men (c.) Women .. . . (2.) Teachers in schools with average attendance over eight— (a.) Men and women .. .. ; (b.) Men .. .. (p.) Women (3.) Teachers in schools with average attendance over twenty- —• (a.) Men and women (6.) Men (c.) Women (4.) Head teachers— (a.) Men (b.) Women (5.) All sole teachers— («.) Men (ib.) Women .. .. (6.) Sole teachers in schools with average j attendance over eight— (a.) Men (b.) Women (7.) Assistants— (a.) Men (b.) Women ... £ s. d. £ s. d. 169 3 2 181 2 9 231 3 6 254 16 7 140 3 0 146 13 4 173 16 6 186 4 7 232 4 7 256 0 2 145 5 9 152 2 6 182 1 S 193 7 6 244 9 3 268 13 1 149 19 6 154 12 6 265 19 II 302 2 9 214 3 3 244 18 2 146 13 4 167 4 0 118 12 9 135 11 5 149 1 3 170 2 0 134 6 9 154 II 7 244 12 0 244 12 0 144 2 4 144 2 4 £ s. d. 173 11 0 242 13 0 144 15 II £ s. d. 185 12 II 267 2 4 151 14 11 177 5 8 243 1 8 148 16 3 189 14 11 267 12 1 156 1 1 185 18 8 253 J 5 9 151 2 5 197 5 7 278 14 0 159 2 1 275 15 7 216 19 5 312 0 3 247 7 10 152 15 9 124 II 10 171 I 7 142 5 0 153 16 3 135 18 11 175 6 1 156 5 11 257 4 3 148 17 2 257 4 3 148 17 2