SCHOOL MAINTENANCE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3812, 23 September 1936, Page 5

SCHOOL MAINTENANCE

ALLOWANCES TO COMMITTEES INCREASED. T Te Awamutu and district school committees will learn with a good deal of interest, and not a little gratification, that allowances paid to committees by the Boards •of flducation throughout the Dominion are to be made on a much more liberal scale than for several years past, judging by the announcement made by the Canterbury Education Board. At last meeting of that Board' it was stated that allowances will be increased by an average of between 40 and 50 per cent., and the payment will be made retrospective to April Ist. The finance committee reported to the Board having received a statement from the Department of Education sotting out the increases payable, and the Board decided to plaee on record its appreciation of the action of the Minister of Education, Hon. P. Fraser, in making additional amounts available for the assistance, of the funds of school committees. “This is the most pleasant news we have had for years,” said the chairman of the finance, committee. “We have been fighting for this for seventeen years, and now we can announce very substantial increases. The average is between 40 and 50 per cent., and the payment is retrospective’ to April Ist. This will allow the'school committoas, for one thing, to increase the wages of their school caretakers,, some of whom are woefully underpaid.” Another member of the Board said he would go further, and assert that the announcement was the best news the Board had ever received. '**