TEACHERS' SALARIES.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, Thursday
At the Teachers' Salaries Commission to-day. Mr James Mitchell, a member of the Education Roard, complimented the Secretary for ducation on seeing the propriety of amending the suggest -d scale of staffing and salaries in the direction of what prevailed in Otago. Every teacher ought to have his salary determined by his own qualifications and length of service, and the Board ought to have the power of placing that teacher exactly where it was thought the greatest amount of good would be done. Unless Parliament was prepared to go that length he thought it would be doing no good in adopting a colonial scale. Mr P. G. Pryde. secretary of the Education Board, did not favour a colonial scale of salaries, because he believed teachers would be better paid by the Boards than by the •Government. Taking them all round, the Otago teachers were better paid than in other districts. In schools of from 15 to 130 pupils he thought they were underpaid-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19010517.2.6.2
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 116, 17 May 1901, Page 2
Word Count
170TEACHERS' SALARIES. Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 116, 17 May 1901, Page 2
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in