TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 13

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

TO THIS LDITOR OF THE PRESS. , g; r —Like many of your readers, ffter a daily perusual of your columns J hare mixed thoughts about the common of even High School masters "'pealing for higher salaries and of ♦he Government for entertaining them. u, r jne in mind the reduced spending WB-cr of the fi,thers of manj l of , % C 8 and girls in secondary schools, it rti-tainly seems inappropriate for Ifhoolniasters to ho applying for tnJLascfl salaries at the present time. Sla'nv of them have free residences and all of them have fixed salaries and a Ijheral superannuation, while many of the parents have to contend with the vicissitudes of trade or the tips and doirns of farm products. I was recently pertisirg an old letter written fo, the secretary of . the Canterbury provincial Council, to an ol<l schoolmaster of Lyttelton, which read thus: <iDear Sir, —Owing' to the state of the provincial Treasury, your present nhrv of £l7O per annum will be reduced to £100." Th is man and many otiim carried on their work with equal efficiency and were probably glad to cooperate with the Government in a dufcalt period After all, best services l» not paid for.—Yours, etc.. I.OOK AHEAD. February 11th, 1930.