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New Zealand Mail, 5 February 1902, Page 46

TEACHERS’ SALARIES. The Education Board discovered what the chairman facetiously called a "Blair's nest” at an early stage of its proceedings last Wednesday. The chairman reported to the Board that, with a desire to comply with the previsions of the Teachers’ salaries Act of last session, he had instructed the inspectors and the secretary to draw up a schedule showing the names of those teachers who were entitled to promotion under the Act, and also making proposals for the re-ad- i justment of positions where necessary I to facilitate operations under the new ‘ scale. It may be remembered that in order to simplify these readjustments, the officials, in consultation with the chairman, issued a circular intimating pupil teachers under the Board of dis- 1 continuance of their services. This circular was, undoubtedly, a prolix document, implying that the uncertificated teachers in the Board’s employ would probably be ‘‘sacked” at the Board’s next meeting. Naturally the circular caused a great deal of lieartburning, and protests were made by pupil teachers ana parents to members of the Board, with the result that when the Board met yesterday, Messrs Hogg, Robertson and Young at once got to work and declared themselves prepared to resist the dismissal of pupil teachers. The chairman tried to explain; Messrs Hogg, Robertson and Young responded heatedly Messrs Buchanan, Bradey and Foist branched out into little theories of then own about “the intention of the Act, and tried to pour oil on the troubled waters; and on top of everything, two inspectors produced their schedule-" which was at once violently by the irreconcilables—and the p<®“® became chaotic. It was not until Board had adjourned for lunch, ana ' turned in an amiable and reasons > T frame of mind, that it was defjiu. J decided to go through the sene seriatim. Then it transpired that tn inspectors had, with an infinitu „f pains, gone into the whole quescale; had weighed and measured teachers eligible for P r ®%i ne iV the had sorted them out so deftly members of the Board professe , selves altogether satisfied, an grateful, and Mr Hogg w . et !^, s n f turß to express the hope that in th the Board would have the bene. an J co-operation of Messrs e ® -.§ m ent Bakewell, not only in the , a PPof teachers, but in other admi matters as well. One thing clear—that there was to he ll rn.„ T6 reof capable pupil teachers. * main, it appears, eighteen app j o t for whom places have to be 0 the inspectors say there wm D off Acuity about that. Cheque increased . being distributed under th! . ers are scale, and, as some. of the t entitled to draw twice as in « $a received in the bad old atys, jj. majority are getting , j L lining creases, there is a decided timf on the cloud which has to , tjonJ been hovering over the edw» horizouf.