PAY OF TEACHERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 3

PAY OF TEACHERS

TO ,THE EDITOB. Sir, — Some months ago you published a letter from me, in which I recommended importing teachers from the Home Land,, so as to enable thd Education Department to carry out the policy of substituting assistants for pupil teachers, a policy authority for which the Department ' had received from Parliament, but which the Department said it could not carry out because of the dearth of teachers* in the Dominicfi. I stated that there was a plethora of trained teachers in England, but another correspondent disputed my statement. Correspondence received by to-day's mail confirms my statement. The writer, who is on the , staff of on© of the residential training colleges, bAYs: "Matters hnre are at present not very bright, since men on ■ leaving 1 college often find it difficult to obtain posts as certificated class masters; Tho day colleges, ■ whidh have increased in fiufti- . bers enormously during recent years, are turning out teachers much in excess _of requirements. . Hence many are going to Canada, and Vancouver. Strange to say, some of those who have gone _ to Canada have given up teaching to join surveying parties, etc., owing ,to tho better pay offered." So you ' see, Mr. Editor, New' Zealand is not the only place .where teachers are leaving the profession because other callings are better ' paid.— 4 am, etc, INTERESTED. Wellington, 25th " February, 1913.