TEACHERS’ SALARIES

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160724, 10 August 1920, Page 7

TEACHERS’ SALARIES

STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER. (Per United Press Association.) \VINGTON, August 10. Referring to the exception taken to the statement which he is alleged to have made in Parliament that teachers had alerady received a 66 per cent, increase on their pre-war salaries, the Hon. C. J. Parr explained that what he intended to convey was that as a result mainly of the increases paid to t-eachere from 1914 to 1920, the annual cost in public school teacbersj salaries had increased by 66 per cent. He did not intend at all to convey the impression that each teacher had received au increase of 66 per cent, because that was not correct. Mr Parr announces that Cabinet has just agreed to find another quarter of a million a year for primary school teachers to be available for distribution as soon as the Department gets out a just and equitable sum for increase. Provision is also being made for increases to technical, native, and secondary school teachers.