TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VXII, Issue 7155, 21 March 1901, Page 2

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

i'PRB PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Wellington, March 19. . The Eduoation Department having asked the Eduoation Board to make specific recommendations for inoreases to teachers' salaries, the following proposals of the board will be brought up for ratification : — That aided sohools ! receive capitation at the rate of £5 per head of average attendance, instead of £3 158 ; that teachers in charge of schools with an average attendance of from 15. to 20 reoeive an inorease of £20 each, making a salary of £100 ; of from 20 to 25 an inorease of £20, making a salary of £120 ; of from 2.5 to 30 an increase of £10, making a salary of £180 ; that all ex-pupil teachers have an increase of £8 per annum, and all pupil teachers £5; that the ecale of assistants be made more liberal, and their salaries gradually improved with an increase of attendance.

Hokitika, March 19.

The "Weatland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute passed the following resolution : — That we heartily congratulate the Taranaki Education Board on its loyal support of the Education Department in the endeavour to inaugurate a colonial scale of salaries, the board thus sinking all self-interest in the cause of justioe. TfAMEB, March 19» At the meeting of the Hawke\ Bay Eduoation Board to-day the selection committee submitted a scheme for the distribution of tfce extra grant for! teachers salaries, They proposed that 72 teachers' salaries between JglOO and £200 be increased by 4 por cent., and 59 teachers' salaries up to £100 be increased by 10 per cent., and that 54 second, third, and fourth-year pupilteachers' salaries be increased by 7s-*per cent. The reopmtnenda.tions were approved. Wellington, March 20. The Education Board has approved the scale for increasing teaohers' salaries. The increases amount to £8346. At the Wanganui Education Board, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Pirani, That the attention of the Education Department be called to the faot that the salaries paid by this board to teachers in the past would have been very much lower only for the fact that the allowance to school committees were based upon a very inadequate scale, and that in proposing any additions to salcries it is hoped the low \ allowances to school committees ia this eduoation distriot be also taken into consideration, t