TEACHERS’ SALARIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4301, 9 March 1901, Page 2

TEACHERS’ SALARIES.

A writer in a country contemporary, who evidently knows what he is writing about, asserts that, except in a few instances, teachers are fairly paid by the Wellington Education Board. That this is tlm case is shown, he asserts, ,by the eager anxiety of numbers of young people to enter the teaching profession, htow and again a young country teacher has a Lard struggle on £BO or £IOO a year to make ends fairly meet. But thur happens pretty well in every line pt life before the apprentice develops into a journeyman. In. the Wellington district the salaries of competent male teachers, capable of taking charge of schools, range from £l6O to £370. Fe.male_ teachers are not so well paid, and this is doubtless a grievance. But the young lady on £BO to £l2O a year, who has merely herself to maintain," is better off than the average benedict, with double the money, and lots of olive branches consuming it. Besides, it is generally acknowledged that while the female teacher may be a good assistant, or a proper head of a girls’ school, she is usually ( an inefficient disciplinarian in country schools, where the!re are big boys to be kept in order- No better proof that salaries are considered fairly good, could be given, than is shown by the keen competition that elxists for positions in our schools. At last week's meeting of the Wellington Board, eight applications wore received for the position of teacher at Waingawa, the salary beSng £7O and residence. Five of the applicants were females and three males, and their ages ranged from twenty-two to sixty-one, all being unmarried. For third assistant master Clyde quay school, salary £IOO-, there were eleven, applicants, all single, ages twenty to twentyeight. For a similar pay and position at Pet-one, there were nine applicants. .For £135 and fc2o house allowance, at Tokomaru, there were seventeen applicants, nine males and eight females. For the position of headmaster at Carterton, salary £285 and residence, there were twenty-five applicants, hailing from different parts of the eeleny.