PAYING FOR TALENT.
Sir-It is possible Professor Chapman has been dealt with too hardly by your correspondents. Little can be gained by comparing one salaried post with another. But what about the prosperous local draper who buys, a house, a car, a bach, and a launch in fairly rapid succession? And the dairy farmer who bets, not in "fivers" but in hundreds? And the small manufacturer who buys a "Fairmile"? They have taken risks and they have had the use of a little capital; but their reward is out of all proportion apparently to their service to the community or to their degree of personal skill and ability. They are rewarded, apparently, far beyond any salaried professional man-‘"apparently," for we see only the results. Salaried positions, especially those under the Government, have lagged far behind the rewards of commerce. At present, outside the four cities salaried men, local body engineers or post-primary teachers for instance, who have had a university education themselves, cannot give a similar education to their children-they can to one child perhaps, but not to several. What "the rewards of commerce actually are, I do not know. I do not know who can cite them. I do not know how, in the long run, salaries are fixed in relation to them; but if in the long run, it is by public opinion, you, Sir, might allow the comparison to be discussed a little further in your columns.
TAD
Epsom
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 459, 9 April 1948, Page 5
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242PAYING FOR TALENT. New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 459, 9 April 1948, Page 5
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