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The total cost of salaries and allowances (including the sum saved in house allowances) works out at £5 15s. sd. per head of the average attendance, as compared with £5 lis. 6d. in 1917. Corresponding figures in other countries are : New South Wales, £6 Is. 6d. ; Victoria, £4 Bs. Id. ; South Australia, £3 14s. 6d. ; Ontario, £5 os. sd. In addition to the salary-payments mentioned, a sura of £51,449 was distributed as a war bonus among teachers whose salaries did not exceed £315 per annum. The individual payments made 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 given in Table E4.

Average Salaries of Primary School Teachers.

It will be observed that in nearly every case the figures for 1918 are greater than the 1917 figures. The slight decrease in the average salary of male assistants is accounted for by the fact that a larger proportion left the service to take up military duties in 1918 than in any other year, their places being filled for the most part by women teachers. It should be pointed out that of the 4,818 teachers 4,076 are included in section (3) above, where the average salary of men and women is £200 Bs., and the average salary of men teachers is £285 10s. 6d. ; the number of male head teachers receiving an average salary of £318 15s. 6d. is 745, and the number of female head teachers receiving an average salary of £250 19s. 4d.

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1917. 1918. Excluding House 1 Including House Allowances and | Allowances and Value of Value of Residences. Residences. I, , , Excluding House Inoluding House Allowances and Allowances and i Value of Value of Residences. Residences. I [1.) Teachers in all schools— (a.) Men and women (b.) Men (e.) Women £ s. d. £ s. d. 173 11 0 185 12 11 242 13 0 267 2 4 144 15 11 151 14 11 £ s. d. 185 12 11 267 2 4 151 14 11 i £ s. d. £ s. d. 175 5 9 187 3 1 246 17 6 272 11 9 146 8 1 153 6 6 £ s. d. 175 5 9 246 1.7 6 146 8 1 (2.) Teachers in schools with average attendance over eight—■ (a.) M'en and women (b.) Men (c.) Women 177 5 243 1 148 16 8 8 3 189 14 11 267 12 1 156 1 I 179 0 11 248 19 7 150 7 5 191 5 273 9 157 11 6 4 6 [3.) Teachers in schools with average attendance over twenty — (a.) Men and women (b.) Men (c.) Women 185 18 253 15 154 2 8 9 5 197 5 278 14 159 2 7 0 1 189 6 260 12 .157 18 3 5 5 200 8 285 10 164 6 0 6 8 [4.) Head teachers— (a.) Men (b.) Women 275 15 216 19 7 5 312 247 0 3 7 10 282 5 7 220 11 11 318 15 250 19 6 4 [5.) All sole teachers- — (a.) Men (6.) Women 152 15 9 124 11 10 174 142 1 5 7 0 153 12 6 125 13 11 174 143 6 7 9 2 '6.) Sole teachers in schools with average attendance over eight-— (a.) Men (b.) Women 153 16 3 135 18 11 175 156 6 1 5 11 154 19 10 137 8 8 176 1 157 13 2 0 '7.) Assistants— (a.) Men (b.) Women 257 4 148 17 3 2 257 4 148 17 3 2 256 10 5 149 13 1 256 10 149 13 5 1