HIGHER SALARIES WANTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 226, 21 September 1920, Page 7

HIGHER SALARIES WANTED.

PROFESSORS APPROACH THE COUNCIL. POSITION "REALLY ACUTE." The question of reviewing the salaries' of the professors and other -members of the staff of the Auckland University College owing to the high cost of living, was the subject of a letter received by the council yesterday from Professor M. Walker, chairman of the Professorial Board. The letter requested that the council should reopen the question of salaries not only of the professors, but of all members of the staff, and suggested that the council receive a deputation with a view to going fully into the matter. "We are convinced," wrote Profeseor Walker, "that such a deputation would be able to produce significant facts, and to prove that the recent increases in salary are quite inadequate to meet the increased cost of living. The plain fact is that the financial position of most members of the staff ifi really acute." It was hoped that the council would be sympathetic towards the request, and 'that it might be willing to approach the Government for further financial assistance if the funds at its dieposnl were not sufficient to enable it to take "direct rtction." Some amusement was created by one member of the council asking what was meant by irwaTdwided to receive a deputation from the board at the next meeting.