TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 28 February 1901, Page 2

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

WELLING TON, Wednesday.

The schedule of teachers' salaries drawn up by the Education Department was again discussed by the Wellington Education Hoard to-day. Mr Hogg. M.H.R., moved that the Board is of opinion that the disturbance of its regulations by increasing of certain salaries is likely to produce disorganisation and heartburnings, and must obviously fail to remove the necessity for substantial retrenchment. An amendment was put forward that, the Board request the Department to call a conference of Education Boards for the purpose of considering the Department proposals. The amendment was carried. Mr Robert Lee, chief inspector, said the Secretary for Education had told him that the Department, did not intend to divulge its system for a colonial scale of salaries until a conference had been held. Mr Hogben had told him (Mr Lee) enough however, to convince him that the scheme as a whole was likely to prove a satisfactory one. It would mean an increase of eight per cent, for each teacher in the colony, or a total increase in expenditure by the GbvernnJent of £20,000. Some of the. Board doubted the correctness of'Mr Lee's information, and especially the statement that pupil-teachers were to be practically considered. Mr Lee repeated that, as an expert, he considered Mr Hogben's scheme a good one. The scale was on a basis of: number of pupils in attendance, but also recognised grades of teaching that the Wellington Board did not recognise. The members of the Board spoke against any infringement of the. functions entrusted to the Education Boards by statute.