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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8246, 11 December 1911, Page 5

In the salaries earned in New Zealand by professional men, there still remains, said Principal Gray to the "Wellington Training College students at the breaking-lip function, very much to be desired. A University professor should be paid certainly not less than £1000. Contrasting the general conditions of life under which the ordinary labourer and the university professor existed, the lobourer at £3 a week was. by comparison, better off than the professor who was getting £700 a year. He cited the eaije of the Government Meterologist, whose work was of immense value to the country,— to farmers and slipping especially— and who received something like £400 a year for. service's which were commensurately worth £2000 a year in salary. A trained teacher, certified, had to begin in the back-country school at a beggarly £90 a year. In his opinion, he should begin with not less than £120 a year.-—(Applause.)