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Salaries and Status of Secondary Teachers. The total amount paid as salaries to the regular staffs of secondary schools as at the rates paid in December last was £71,992, as against £69,856 for the previous year. Full particulars will be found in Table K4. The following summary shows the average salary paid to principals and assistants: — Average Salabies in Secondary Schools. 1913. , 1914. , M. F. All. M. F. All. Principals ... 531 391 484 524 397 482 Assistants ... 249 161 211 248 163 211 Whole staff ... 286 182 243 283 183 241 Note.—The salaries of part-time teacherß are not taken into consideration in the above summary. The average salary of all women was £183 4s. 7d., and the average salary of 'all men was £283 ss. 4d. Conditions have been made under the Act of 4914 ensuring certain minimum salaries better than the present average salaries, so that higher average salaries may be expected at the end of the current year. In 'the secondary departments of district high schools salaries are uniform, in accordance with the schedule to the Act. The average salaries actually paid to secondary assistants, exclusive of the sums paid to head teachers by way of extra salary, were, in December, 1913 and 1914, as follows:— 1913. 1914. £ s. d. £ s. d. Male assistants ... ... ... ... 193 0 0 209 19 5 Female assistants ... ... ... ... 164 7 9 182 8 7 All secondary assistants ... ... ... 174 8 9 194 12 9 (The soale of salaries is the same for men and women.) The total amount paid in salaries to teachers in secondary departments of district high schools, including the special payments to head teachers, was £18,929 as against £17,295 for 1913. The professional qualifications of the secondary-school teachers of the Dominion are as follows : — Status op Secondary Teachers (Regular Staff only), December, 1914. Distriot Secondary High Schools Schools. (Seoondary * Principals,— Departments). Graduates ... ... ... ... ... 32 20 Holding certificates or other qualifications (excluding graduates)... ... ... ... ... 1 40 Assistants, — Graduates ... ... ... ... ... 217 54 Certificated (excluding graduates)... ... ... 17 27 Uncertificated ... ... ... ... ... 32 7 Totals ... ... ... ... 299 148 Finances of Secondary Schools. The income of secondary schools is derived from the following sources: — (i.) Rents from the special reserves allocated to them by statute: (ii.) Statutory grants given in lieu of special reserves: (iii.) Interest upon moneys derived from the sale of reserves and invested in accordance with, the Education Reserves Act : (iv.) Income from the secondary-school reserves controlled by the Land Boards, divided among the secondary schools in the several land • districts in proportion to the number of pupils in average attendance, lower departments excluded : (v.) Government payments — (a) Statutory capitation upon free pupils under the Act ; (b) subsidies on voluntary contributions for the general purposes of the school:

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