TEACHERS FIND HOPE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1944, Page 4

TEACHERS FIND HOPE

PARLIAMENT'S EXAMPLE

"The executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute is in full agreement with thestep unanimously taken by members of Parliament to restore their own salaries to what they had previously been," stated its president, Mr. J. Barnett, at a meeting of the executive yesterday. "It is an endorsement of the view that inside stabilisation there, are ways in which to make adjustments essential if economic justice is to be done. The institute has recently put forward a very strong claim on behalf of married male teachers. On-grounds-identical with those taken in .increasing the salaries of members of Parliament, namely, under-payment of these teachers and their inability to meet unavoidable expenses entailed upon them by their professional and domestic responsibilities, it naturally feels that the case it has "brought before the Stabilisation Committee is given added weight by the raising oi the salaries of M.P.s.

"The granting to M.P.s of an allowance of £250 free of taxation mainly to meet expenses incurred in travelling strengthens the long-standing claim the. institute has made for the payment of removal expenses to its members. As a recent investigation showed, there are numbers of married male teachers who have had to forgo promotion because they were without the money to meet the cost of removal to a new and better position. Some of these teachers had been without a new suit for years, and had had to realise on the surrender value of their insurance policies."