Country Teaching
Sir,—i read the letter of "Remote West Coast Teacher’s Wife” with sympathetic interest. In spite of our primitive living conditions we, too. were full of enthusiasm and felt we were doing a worth-while job, improving the ghastly schoolhouse at our own expense, using our precious rationed petrol to (take children to and from [sports, and generally doing lour best for pupils and dis-
rict until my husband went on war service, as a volunteer. When you are young, retirement seems so remote that salaries do not matter much, but I hope that grading officers will not force the West Coast teacher to follow the example of my husband and many other faithful exteachers of country schools and plan for a working retirement because superannuation payments will be so low. It is time we had a union of teachers’ wives.—Yours, etc., TEACHER’S WIFE. August 9, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30826, 11 August 1965, Page 12
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