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of Inspectors in England. I have also had a longer connexion
(23 years in this Department & Queen's College alone) with
Education than any other person in the Colony, with the
single exception of the Rev. Dr. Pearce, and, probably on
that account, have succeeded in establishing the most cor-
dial relations with the Grant Schools,
4.
When the new Scale of Salaries was published, it
was with the following condition attached,-
"All Officers in the (Education) Department will be
required to perform, without additional remuneration,
such duties at the Technical Institute or elsewhere as
the Director of Education may assign to them,"
The condition has been removed, with the result that all
additional duties, out of School hours, are paid for at the
rate of $5 ($6) an hour. The posts are accordingly made
more valuable than was intended by the Commission, but no
change has been made in the post of Inspector of English
Schools: If I were paid at the same rate for work done out
of office hours (exclusive of work at the Technical Institute)
an additional sum of $1000 p.a. would be due. As matters
stand, Assistant Masters many years junior to me in point
of service may -and will- by engaging in tuition privately
or at the University, obtain a larger income than that which
I receive, and still enjoy long vacations each year and dur-
ing Term more leisure than falls to my lot. Also, these
Masters have many years service before them in which to
enjoy these larger income, while I am almost at the end
of my service.
B. The Technical Institute
When in 1908 I was put in charge of the Technical
Institute I received a salary of $1200 p.a. This continued
until October 1913 when I was appointed Inspector of English