CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 149, 23 June 1894, Page 5

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

TEACHERS' SALARIES

(BY TELEGRAPH, —OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Cambridge, this day. A MEETING oE the School Committee was held last night, when the following resolutions were unanimously carried:*-(l) "That the Committee complain to the Board of their charging rent for the country teachers' house?, and protest against the same ; also against their scheme of redistribution of teachers salaries, both being inequitable and moat unfair, and calculated to injure the system, and this especially in the country districts." (1) "That the Committee request His Worship the Mayor to convene a meeting of householders in the Uppor VVp.ikato to consider and protest against the scheuio oE iho Auckland Board of Education for the readjustment of the teachers salaries, and for charging the country teachers rent tor the use of thq school houses." Mr T. Wells spoke very strongly upon the question, and said it was a scheme of Messrß Muir and Udy to supply funds for the past extravagence of the Board. He gave an- il ustration of the unfairness of the project by the way it aflected our school master, Mr R. C. Dyer. The average attendance at his school is 174, and his reduction amounts to 15-£ per cent.,- while the Cambridge West master is only reduced 4 per cent. Mr Dyer left Ponsonby where he was receiving £225 to come, here for £220 because of the free house and now he ia asked to pay £13 2s 6d per annum for ib. The Mayor has complied with the request of the Committee and a public meeting will be called at an early date.