SCHOOL COMMITTEES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 8

SCHOOL COMMITTEES

ALLOWANCES INCREASED

PLEASURE IX CANTERBURY

(Per Tress Association.)

OHKISTCHURCIL last night

The allowances paid by the Canterbury Education Board to school committees will be increased by an average of between 40 and £0 nor cent., and the payment will be made retrospective to April 1, according to a statement made at- a meeting of the board's finance committee which reported having received a statement from the department, setting out the increases payable, and if- was decided to place on record the board's appreciation of the action of flic Minister of Education, the Hon. Peter Fraser, in making the additional amounts available for the assistance of funds of school committees.

"This is the most pleasant news for many years," said the chairman of tho finance committee. "We have been fighting for this for 17 years and now we can announce very substantial increases. The average is between 40 and 50 per cent, suitl the payment is retrospective to April 1. if will allow the committees to increase the wages of caretakers, some of whom are woefully underpaid." "This is the best news we have ever received." commented another member.