UNIVERSITY SALARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 10

UNIVERSITY SALARIES.

GENERAL INCREASE SOUGHT. GOVERNMENT AID WANTED. Representatives of the four university colleges recently waited on flic Prime Minister and the Minister oi* Education to discuss the need of further Government help in raising the salaries of professors and lecturers to a standard a little nearer that which prevailed before the war. In the course of a report to the .Auckland University College Council yesterday, Sir George Fowlds, the president,, said the aim was to pay all professors £IOOO a year and their first assistants an average of £550. It was recognised these rates would not he equivalent to those of the pre-war period. The deputation had stated that in order to pay such salaries each college would need an income about £4OOO a year higher than at present. To bring Auckland into the computation on equal terms with the other colleges, provision had been made for two or three /more lecturers. The reason was that while) professors hero were paid, on the average, more than those in the south, some of them were less liberally provided with assistants. The deputation hud received noi definite promises, but the matter would ><> considered, and in the meantime it had agreed that each college should send particulars of its requirements. Jt ih# 0 f would get something. report was received.