TEACHERS SALARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11692, 29 June 1901, Page 5

TEACHERS SALARIES.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. Giving evidence before the Teachers' Salaries Commission, Mr. Fleming, inspector under the Wellington Education Board, said that few boys were entering the teaching profession, find the girls offering were better qualified than the boys. There were 1022 certificated teachers in the colony receiving less than £100 a year; 58 receiving between £300, and £400 a year ; and four receiving over £400 a year. There was not sufficient inducement to young men to enter the profession. The average woman was not physically capable of managing one of the higher classes, of, say, 60 pupils, in a mixed school. There might be some women who could. Women were capable of managaiug big classes of girls only, though he would feel safer - with male teachers in charge. The cost of training women teachers was at least equal to that of men, and women required longer and more frequent leave of absence. He aid not believe in equal pay for women, but the present disparity of the salaries of males and females was too great. He supported the principle of a uniform scale of salaries.