“underpaid”
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Samoan teachers “underpaid”
The Western Samoan Govern ment could face a shortage of teachers if teachers in NZ heed a recent request not to accept work in that country.
The request has been made by the New Zealand Educational Institute, as a result of com plaints of poor salaries paid NZ teachers in Western Samoa.
According to reports in the NZ Press, NZ teachers in Western Samoa received a 20 per cent, cut in salary following devaluation. “This,” said Mr. L.
E. Patchett, chairman of the NZEI, “was a breach of the spirit of their term of service.”
At last report, the NZEI was trying, through the NZ Govern ment, to restore teachers’ wages in Western Samoa to pre-deval uation level.
Mr. Patchett said that the NZEI did not want any more of its members to be exploited, as was happening now.