TEACHERS’ SALARIES COMMISSION.
[Fer Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 25. Giving evidence before the Teachers’ Salaries Commission, Mrs Francis urged that mistresses of separate infant schools, apart from, other schools, should' form a separate grad©. Under, the headmasters’ proposal her school would be shut up, as out of 445 in it there were 163 who were over seven years, and they were not sufficiently advanced to go to another school. Th© proposal of th© headmasters was actuated by a desire to increase their- attendance under the new scale. Mr Bennett, headmaster at Karori, said that under th© present system of paying teachers in the Wellington district, anomalies and injustices occurred. The salaries paid for-the large Wellington schools, under the alternative scale, were more adequate than at present. He considered there were too many pupil-t-eackers in this district, and’ there would not be employment for those now being trained ‘ for many years to come. He did not find any general demand for equal salaries for men and women, and;if that principle was put into operation the keener competition that .would ensue must -result in toe break-down of the woman.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12535, 24 June 1901, Page 11
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187TEACHERS’ SALARIES COMMISSION. Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12535, 24 June 1901, Page 11
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