"THREE-HA'PENNY RISE."
SCHOOL TEACHERS' PROTESTS. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Letten* from dwa.ppointed school teachers, protesting against the dole promised them iby the Reform Government continue to pour in upon members of tbe House. During last week a number of teachers, .including several well-known j headmasters, have written to Liberal members, urging them to keep up their; opposition to the "Reform's threehalfpenny rise." The most serious aspect of the whole question is that there are threatened resignations in all parts of New Zealand, opeciallv amongst male assistants. Me.v teachers are hardest to lind. As one headmaster's letter points out. there are better prospects for a young man in a warehouse or nn office than in the teaching service under present conditions. ] c j, prou able that at the next meeting of the Wellington Education Board there will be at least three resignations of male [teachers Horn city schools,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 196, 18 August 1913, Page 6
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