POLICE AT SCHOOLS.
A PRACTICE DISLIKED. (Special to the “Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, July 18. The Canterbury School Committees’ Association will he asked to give definite instances where. police officers have interviewed school children during school hours. Until this is done, the Canterbury Education Board decided this morning that it could do nothing in the matter. , The Appointments’ Committee, in a report, stated that a letter had been received from the School Committees’ Association' asking that the Board should make a definite ruling forbidding this The report recommended that the local superintendent (Mr E. Eales) should be asked to giye consideration to the association’s request. Members opposed this, stating that no definite instances had been given. The Board would look foolish if it went ahead with the matter without being sure of their facts.
It was decided to ask the association to give definite instances, pending which consideration would bo deferred.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 236, 19 July 1930, Page 6
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