TEACHERS' SALARIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 160, 4 July 1918, Page 3

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

COMPARED WIITfi PUBLIC SERVICE CADKi'ti. PUPIL TEACHERS BADLY 'J'EEA'iED. At the meeting of the Otago Education -Board, say.«- the Times, a circular from the Education Ltpartment an-.-jiouncing that an increase m the salaries and allowances for pupil teaeheis I and probationers would be paid from i the Ist inst was read. ! Th:- Chairman (the Hon. D. T. Fie.n- !, ing produced a schedule comparing the salaries of pupil teachers and probationers with those. of cadets in the public service. He said tiiat although it was pleasing to see that tha decartmen t had at iast recognised that the pupil teachers and. probationers had not been fairly treated in the past, there was' still a disparity b.tween their salaries and allowances and those paid to the Public Service cadets. He stated that while a pupil teacher in his fourth year had (up to June 1) received £55 if living at home, and £65 if boarding, and now received £6O in the <ue case and £BS in th e other, the Public .Service youth in his fourth years received £BO if living at home, and £9B if boarding. The disparity between the Training College Student and th e Public Service man was even more marked, th.- student in his second year at the college (amln probafc-ly his fourth or fifth year of service) getting a maximum of £75 (with Univer- j sity fees fre P amounting to about £lO mostt : while the public servant received £llO, a provision existing under which every male officer with not less than thre e years' service shall, on attaining the ago of 21 years, he entitled to n salary -of £llO a year. In the Public Service the men did eight hours' work daily, were paid for overtime, and had prospect of lucrative uromolion. which came as -a/ settled thing in due course. But the trainee for teaching had a hard, grind for the first year, and after from four to six years of this urind had the prospect of a salarv of £75.. He had an idea, too, that the salaries in the Public Service had been increased by £lO <>s from April, which made the compa.L.cn even worse. o *

Mr Wallace said lie was satisfied ♦■■bat tbe Mi.iineter of Education (the Hod. J. A. Hanan) was on the sul- of the hoard in this matter, and all that was necessary wa s that thev should ami him by way of a resolution with which to n-eet and opposition. A (tor a brief discussion it was resolved to thank tfie .Minister for the Micro.is s' s-'brdnlwl. but to noint out that the -disparity which still" existed between the rates paii? for punil teach-' f?rs, probationers, and Triinin<r- Collie students iinl those pa'"d Wlriul>Hc •ervants. pavticuTarlv cmnhasism.<r the rle"r»as P in the rut nil teachers and pro--I,"t; '"" , i' after thev entered the TVninimr OolWp—a .dorra.se in tbe ""*<> of pupil teachers from £BS to £75.