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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13905, 12 November 1908, Page 5

fe.A letter which apparently illustrates the suspense into which school teachers were thrown whilst awaiting the "sympathetic ttterpretatiaia" of the Minister for Educa- : tion regarding the clause in the Education ' ; ■ Amendment Act affecting their salaries, \~' f ' 'S® 6 received by tin; Auckland Education Bojrd at its meeting yesterday. Tho - a teacher hi the Board's service, %'ho is present drawing less than the §*'-tfo J?^ lmutu salary prescribed by the EducaSfr, 8 Amendment Act, had written his let.«v- prior to reading tho report of the Prime «. Minister's Auckland specch. He gravely J Whether the Hoard would permit to resign his iiosiiion on December 61 reappoint him to the same position on ; |«BH«!ary 2.-.. Ho also asked that if this were 1 j* rn, hU'd, his two days' break should not allowed to prejudice his : rights in regard to superannuation. The object, of | course, was to secure the benefit of the . |«uunjuni salary, which he was in fear of Hi|p»S;When he penned his letter. "This tlllfir- ML °*' ««-d tlu; chairman of tho Board fllln 9" Parr), "has » legal instinct, but H - * l ' lc Act ha* received a sympa- & , J" c -'interpretation there, is no occasion ° insider his application." tit', i " '-V '