TEACHERS’ SALARIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 5

TEACHERS’ SALARIES

PROPOSALS OF THE WELLINGTON BOARD.

TO BE DISCUSSED AT TO-DAY’S MEETING.

The Education Department having asked the Wellington Education Board for speqific recommendations for increases to teachers’ salaries under the Public School Teachers’ Act, tho chairman of the Board has decided to sub. mit for the consideration of members of the BoarT? a scale of proposed increases to be made to salaries. The effect of these proposals will bk—1. Thai aided schools are to receive capitation at tho rate of £5 per head ■of average attendance, instead of £3 15s 2. That teachers in charge of schools with an average attendance of from fifteen to twenty will receive an increase of. £2O each, making the salary £IOO per' annum. 3. That teachers in charge of schools with, an average' attendance of from twenty to twenty-five will receive an increase of £2O each, making the salary £l2O per annum. 4. That teachers in charge of schools with an average attendance of from twenty-five to thirty will receive an increase of £lO per annum, making the rafary £l3O per annum. , 5. That all ex-pupil teachers have an increase of £S per annum. 6. That.all pupil teachers Lave an increase of £5 per annum. 7. That the scale of assistants be made more liberal, and their salaries gradually improved with Vhe increase of the attendance. v

The proposal is to Increase the salary of the position, but not necessarily the salary of the teacher who at present fills that position. The Board will bo asked to, adjust appointments and make transfers, if required, to improve the efficiency of the service. If /the proposed scale of assistants, is approved, as it probably will bo, ■there wdl bo more appointments to bo made to some of tho larger schools. At tho meeting of the Wanganui Education, Board on Monday, on the motion of Mr Pirani, it was decided to call the attention of tho Education Department to the fact that salaries paid to teachers in. tho district would have been lower in tho past only for the fact that the Board’s allowances to school committees were based on a velry inadequate scale, and to urge that in proposing any additions to salaries th© low allowances to school committees in the district should ho taken into consideration.

* (PBESS ASSOCIATION. HOKITIKA. March, 19. The Westland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute has passed the following resolution That -we heartily congratulate the Taranaki Education Hoard on its loyal support of the Education Department in the endeavour to inaugurate* a colonial scale of salaries, the Board thus sinking all selfinterests in the cause of justice.” NAPIER, March 19. At the meeting of the Hawke’s .Bay. Education Board to-day the Selection Committee submitted a scheme for the distribution of the extra grant for teachers’ salaries. It proposed that seventy-two teadhers’ salaries between £IOO and £2OO be increased by 4 per cent.; fifty-nine teachers’ salaries up to £IOO by 10 per cent.; and fifty-four second, third and fourth year pupil teachers’ salaries be increased by 71 per cent. The recommendations were ordered to he forwarded to the department.