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Tuesday, January 29, 1974
SPECIAL INDUCEMENT ALLOWANCE” FT;N.T. TEACHERS
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Qualified teachers who work in 86 aided primary schools in
remote areas of the New Territories are being paid a special inducement
allowance of $130 a month, a spokesman for the Education Department
said today.
Some 230 qualified teachers are receiving the allowance which
is awarded in recognition of their exceptional working conditions. It
is also to encourage qualified teachers to take up posts in the more
remote areas.
lary of the teachers in these schools are living in the remote
villages or in the vicinity where the schools are situated.
Payment of the inducement allowance will date from December 1, 1973.
The spokesman said that the maximum financial commitment was
estimated at $16,000 a year.
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