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and the cost of a passage home is that of one by the

Japanese Mail, the cheapest passage which can be taken.

If my figures are correct if follows that the proposed

salaries of the Headmistress and the Assistant Headmistress

must also be considered inadequate, and I think that

they are.

7.

The salary therefore that I recom-

mend for the post is $115 a month rising by triennial

increments of $20 a month to $155. I cannot see my way

to recommend less. The minimum salary is just enough to

live on and the maxinum is only a reasonable increase on

it, and is in accordance with the scale on which the

salaries for the Masters at Queen's College.are fixed.

I have etc.,

(Sa.) A. W. Brewin,

Inspector of Schools.

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