( 6 ) 
and inspecting the work of all schools in their 
own subjects, marks a further step on the road 
towards specialization. Finally from 1924 there will 
be another Assistant Director, (with a trained staff) 
in charge of such Chinese vernacular schools as 
elect to apply to Government for grants-in-aid and 
submit to inspection. Even a perusal of this bare 
statement of facts will show the great progress of 
the Education Department on the administrative 
side since the year 1916. 
There is no need here to dwell on the poor pay in 
the past of European and local staffs. It is notorious 
that before the war the teaching profession was 
everywhere underpaid. In Malaya there was the 
further difficulty that the rubber boom attracted 
away many members both of the European and of 
the local staff. No salary scheme can be framed to 
cover the seismic effect of a boom on the economic 
world. 
European male officers are now recruited at the 
rates for other professional Departments, namely 
on $400 per mensem rising by annual increments 
of $25 per mensem to $800 per mensem, while above 
the time-scale there are five appointments on $900 
per mensem and six on $850 per mensem. European 
women teachers begin on $300 per mensem and rise 
by annual increments of $25 to $500 per mensem. 
The exchange value of the dollar is fixed at 2s. Ad. 
Full pay leave to Europe is at the rate of one month 
for each completed 6 months' service. Men may 
retire on pension at the age of 50 and must retire 
at 55; women may retire at the age of 45. 
