Mr. TEMPLE MORRISasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education if he will state the average percentage rise in the salaries of teachers before and after the War; and how this compares with the similar remuneration of the Civil Service?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMThe average percentage increase in the salaries of teachers in public elementary and grant-earning secondary schools on the 1st April, 1933, as compared with 1st April, 1914, was 132. The corresponding increase in the average cost per head of the whole-time non-industrial staff of the Civil Service was 102.4. It should be noted that these figures are the averages
Description. 1930–1. 1931–2. 1932–3. 1933–4. English Home Grown. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Elm … … 880 904 794 883 Oak … … 24,350 27,250 26,050 28,450 Ash … … 3,470 2,800 2,210 3,310 Beech … … 8,970 9,650 8,138 8,427 Hornbeam … … 160 146 78 140 37,830 40,750 37,270 41,210 British Empire Grown. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Teak … … 79,000 85,450 62,950 70,250 Yellow Pine … … 57,400 63,363 27,725 36,375 Borneo Hardwood … … 9,925 26,325 14,600 17,950 Rock Elm … … 25,800 27,900 24,050 29,350 Douglas Fir … … 302,570 376,200 321,450 355,650 Spruce … … 91,065 187,862 114,275 215,675 Mahogany … … 23,550 18,500 6,750 7,700 589,310 785,600 571,800 732,950 Plyboards of valions sizes No. 22,460 No. 22,350 No. 22,270 No. 20,610 Foreign Grown. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Cubic Feet. Pitch Pine … … 1,350 3,150 2,100 1,950 * Lignum Vitæ … … 630 680 634 600 Archangel Deals, etc … … 91,870 36,240 6,686 — 93,850 40,070 9,420 2,550 * Norway Spars … … No. 6,170 No. 8,500 No. 6,080 No. 7,720 * Trials now in hand with a view to substituting British and Empire grown timbers.