RHODESIAN LADY TEACHERS

Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 4

RHODESIAN LADY TEACHERS

ARRIVAL IN NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON, January 31. There arrived to-day by the .Maunganui two lady teachers from Rhodesia —Miss Fox Smith and Miss Earle, who have come over in exchange for a year .in New Zealand. They were stationed at Shaniva, a mining settlement about 100 miles from Salisbury, the capital. Miss Earle is going to Patutahi, near Gisborne, and Miss Fox Smith to Whangarei. The salaries are very high in Rhodesia for teachers, they said, but the cost of living is also very high, so that relatively there is little difference to New Zealand. The teachers start at about £240. Generous allowances of holidays are given, three months on full pay being allowed after 34 years’ service. Domestic wages are very low, native labour being employed' by everyone. - * Miss Fox Smith has caught baby alligators at night ,by playing bright lights on them when their eyes glow like lighted cigarette ends. Rhodesia has one woman in the Legislature and one woman inspector who' inspects the infant department. The “-pay;- for women teachers is lower than for men. There are chances for women teachers in the cities because boys and girls are there divided into separate schools. In the country the schools are mixed and those in charge are mostly men.