41. Colonel NEWMANasked the President of the Board of Education whether he can give the number of hours per day on duty, the length of vacation, and the salary earned by a headmaster and mistress of a public elementary school of over 200 scholars in 1922, as compared with 1913?
§ Major BARNSTONThe usual period during which public elementary schools are actually open for instruction is five-and-a-half hours for older scholars and five hours for infants. The interval between school terms usually amounts to eight or nine weeks. With regard to the average salary, I cannot, without disproportionate labour, give separate figures for schools with over 200 scholars: the average salaries of head teachers of all schools were, in 1913–14, £177 for men and £126 for women, and in the current financial year, £411 for men and £327 for women.