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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1681, 18 May 1904, Page 61

The following is an extract from the annual report of the Southland Education Board: —It is lamentable to reflect that the teachers— especially the male teacher© —of the lower-grade schools are so inadequately requited for their labour. In such schools young men may do well for themselves, but there is to be considered the case of men of middle age, and of men approaching-the period of the f sere and yellow leaf.’ From their present income these men can. derive little beyond the hare necessaries of llife. Some of them by self-sacrifice little short of heroic keep on insurance policy iu force; but others, if the truth must he told, walk continually under the shadow of stark poverty. It is, indeed, time that the country should become alive to its responsibilities in th® matter.” ‘