S.S. A ASSOCIATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 6

S.S. A ASSOCIATION

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WELLINGTON, Sept. 2

The Secondary Schools Assistants' Association carried a resolution urging that .as teachers were obliged to undergo a long and expensive course of training the salaries be further materially increased and brought into line with those of higher officers in the public service and more lucrative professions.

After considerable discussion the following was carried: "That in any scale of salaries drawn up for secondary assistants, the pay of men and women should be equal for equal work and for equal qualifications, which ever forms the basis for such scale, but married assictants should receive in addition to their salaries adequate allowance, proportional, to the number of their dependants. For the purposes of this clause married teachers shall be the same as laid down in the regulations for primary schools in the Education Act of 1914."

The Conference reaffirmed resolutions passed by the Council of Education regarding the payment of superannuation as computed on the three best years of service, and also in respect of payment for work done outside school hours.

It was resolved that every endeavour be made by the Association to include the ordinary university course of four years for the degrees of 8.A., S.Sc, M.A. or M.Sc. in the years that count as years of service for pensions. A The following office::; were elected: President, P. Drummond; vicepresident, Miss L. Bing (Christchurch; executive: ,F. H. Campbell (Dunedin), A. C. Gifford (Wellington), R. M. Laing (Christchurch), C. H. Rockel (New Plymouth); auditor: W. Alexander.