THE TEACHERS' OATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1922, Page 12

THE TEACHERS' OATH.

lI9MXSIAI. CONFIRMED. VACANCY tO BE FILLED. ifc.r Telezj-Kpb.—rreJs Jisswiation.) CHRISTCHCRCH, Tuesday. The refusal of Mr. A. W. Page to take the oath 01 allegiance Without a conscience clause <res referred to in the ' report of the College Committee submit- | tefl4o the Board of Governors of Canter- i T>ury College. The report is aa follows: i '•That th« action of the chairman of the j Board, who, after taking legal advica, : declined to permit Mr. A. VV. Page to continue to teach at the Bors' High ; School in consequence o! his refusing to i take .the oath of allegiance in terms o: ! the Education Ainendiiiont Act, 1021-2-2, ! le approved, and that applications be ! invited to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Page csating to be empioved «t the Boy*' j Hijrh School." j The reptrt ivas adopted by the Board I •without discussion. j In a letiT to the Minister of Eriuca- , tiuil cix senior members oi' the Boy.s" i High School exnregs the opinion that Mr. i Page's work is "far tco valuable to be i lost to the State because of a legal infor- j »l*Mtj\" The letter concludes:— ! "We have no heeitMion in eijing tlie ■ lt«& of Mr. Page to tlie school would be j «. distinct lons to cduesttion. (iota* of us haTe had maiiy opportunJtise to hear Mr. Page teaching, and consider his influence i with liis sohalare it ahvaye of the l>eet. . We never heard from liira anything that suggested t'lc slightest disloyalty to the school or th« oottntry, and should be ! «ach of Ha extremely sorry to lose Mr. I Page as a colleague.' , j OXLY 6KE OBJECTOB. : ißjr Tc:esraph.—l»re*s AsioMslSou.) J WELLIXOTON. Tuesday. t The teachers in the publit and private ■ schools throughout Kew ZeeUnd have j complied frith the requirements of the ; Education Amendment Act and taken the j oath of allegiance, said the Minister of j Tiducation (Hon. 0. J. P*rr) to-day. There was, to far as he was aware, only . <-mc 1-otusal to take the oath, and that wan by a teacher at the Chrietchurcli I Bots' High School. Ail the other teachers had taken the oath with no demur.