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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5288, 28 May 1904, Page 13

It is not only this country that feel* the dearth of school teachers. America is distressed in precisely the same man. net Here is the comment of a Pbitadv!. phia journal on the scarcity From various parts of the country comes the eo •- plaint of a dearth of school teachers, Iho complaint is especially insistent in its West, but it is aho heard in the Bast. Teachers of a certain sort are always to be had. but the supply of the kind of teacher'that the more enlightened edocational authorities would like to employ does not seem to be keeping up win tn> demand. If the people of this country are to maintain the lead that they have taken in the industrial progress ot the world tney must make their schools better and better, and they cannot do this without employing the best teachers that are to be had. and. they cannot get the best teachers, with the cost ,of living steadily rising, unless they are willing to pay at least as good wages as those of the average clerk and mechanic.