TEACHERS' SALARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11679, 14 June 1901, Page 6

TEACHERS' SALARIES.

[BY TEI.EGBAI'H.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wanuanui, Thursday. At tho Teachers' Salaries Commission, which has concluded its Wanganui sittings, Dr. Smylhe, Chief Inspector of Schools,' held that the Board should have power to transfer teachers without reference to school committees. He favoured a central department, and held laid and fast to the colonial scale of salaries. He did not consider the present system a national one when a different scale of salaries and staffing existed in different districts, and pupil-teachers received different training. Mr. Grant, a teacher of 18 years' experience, and president of the Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Teachers' Institute, said dissatisfaction throughout the district was caused by the stairim' and salaries. He favoured a central department for the control of transfers, appointments, and removals. He thought salaries should be paid on the actual number of children present on the day of the inspector's examination. For the higher standards, women teachers were not so good as males. Mr. Aitkcn, president of the Wanganui branch of the Teachers' Institute, was also in favour of a colonial scale of salaries. There would never he satisfaction until teachers were practically Civil servants, i and he thought the reserves should be nationalised and the income used for both pi- ' aiary and secondary schools. He thought ' there should be a normal school for training i pupil-teachers. ° i