(c) Representation made by Institute to Auckland Education Board.

In August, 1891, a motion was tabled by a member of the Auckland Education Board, "That in future no teacher in the Board's service shall be paid a salary exceeding £300." (The teachers in Auckland district, by the way, have no house allowance granted to them.)

Your Institute at once sent up a statement showing the salaries paid by Education Boards in other districts of New Zealand, and giving a number of reasons why the salaries of head-masters "should not be reduced as suggested in the motion. The proposal to lower the salaries was not carried.

In connection with the subject of teachers' salaries, the Committee may mention that in Otago teachers' salaries were formerly paid quarterly, and that the present system of monthly payments was adopted by the Board, at the request of a deputation from the Institute.