PARLIAMENTARY TOPICS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 September 1928, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY TOPICS

THE SESSION. WHEN WILL IT END? MEMBER'S GETTING RESTLESS. (By Telegraph—Special to The Star.). WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. With political aspirants busy prepar. ing for the campaign, members who are tied to thmr Parliamentary'duties are becoming restive. They heartily endorsed a question from “Sir Joseph Ward to the Prime Minister to-day, “When is the session going to end?” Sir Joseph also suggested that the date Of the general election might he disclosed.. “One jis .dependent upon the other,” was the Prime Minister’s answer. He anticipated that members could complete their work by Saturday week, or a day or two later. He did not exactly know. TEACHERS’ SALARIES. WOMEN SEEK EQUALITY. Whether it would be possible to pay women teachers at the same rate as men was a question asked the Minister of Education by. the leader of the United Party, Sir Joseph Ward, in the House to-day. He described it as a question of urgency to those concerned. He had recevied a number of communications from 'women te’achers in different parts of the country, urging that they should receive equal remuneration with the men. The .Minister of Lands: “All members of the. House have received them;-”: Chorus of voices, “Yes, we have allgot them.” - iSir Joseph Ward: “All the more reason for bringing the matfer up.” “This is an old question, which has been before many previous Ministers,”, replied the Hon. R. A. Wright. 1 ‘lndeed, I believe it was before the Government in the days when the right i honourable gentleman ,who asked the question was Prime Minister. .It, is a .very difficult problem. At. the present - time teachers’ salaries generally • are being investigated and an effort is .being made to arrive at a -system under which they might 'be stabilised, so that % thcYe will not be so much changing, about among the teachers. - All, this changing is, I believe, causing a great deal of injury to young people. When this question of stabilisation has been decided it will be possible, to give a more definite answer to the question.”