"FRENCH LEAVE"

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 4

"FRENCH LEAVE"

TEACHERS' LONG HOLIDAY § PLAY IN HOCKEY W EDUCATION- BOARD DEFIED ' W TWO LADIES DISMISSED. (Cj Telegraph.-Spedal to "St*,^ WAXGANUI, this I "I have a matter that I want fc, {' 1 with in open hoard," remarked $ * (Collins, chairman of the- W« • ti Education Board, last evening ftF"? B jthaty he recently had received JZ , ■§ cations on behalf of two 1 .teachers in the King Country-jL. I ■ jOwhango, the other of MuSSi? 1 I were "rep.- , hockey players, and 2° ■ I being anxious to represent their rem* I I tire clubs at the hockey tournamwu M Auckland, required leave t<rZ ? ■ He had communicated with the W B lof the schools referred to, and etttlj R that, without the authority o f tl 1 Board he could not grant permit E He had also received a letter foUmri S his reply from one of the headniasW B jagain requesting permission for one ) H j the young ladies to attend the touru 1 ment. The chairman added that to B teachers had taken the bull by rt! H horns, and when permission was Kk&H X j were absent from work to attend tk B j tourney. "' j Mr. W. Surward said there «at Io 1 private employer who would toW. P such procedure. He considered tie fc services of the teachers should be & I pensed with. s Mr. Fraser remarked that if teacloi M preferred hockey to their work thrr M should be given the opportunity to pUy X hockey. He added: In no other wtft o f \- life were there so many holidays gitntcd E to employees. When these ladies took ■ a week off without permission he con- ■ sidered that it was time they were niids I an example of. If Mclntyre agreed that teaclns ■ were given holidays on a most generom X scale, but before the Board decided on I' dismissing the young ladies he thought R they should be asked to show cuie ■ why they were absent. i Mr. J. Aitken agreed that the teachin |: were guilty of a grave hreach of dltr, r but at the same time it would be more I dignified of the Board to write to tie X young ladies, ask for an explanation, I and, later, consider whether their us- | vices should be dispensed with. The chairman: A second letter m ?1 even sent in after they were told flat i I could not approve of them getting «i time off. A motion "that the services of tie a teachers be dispensed with" was carriei The chairman then asked whetta the Board should admonish the headteacher who wrote the letter to the Board. After further correspondence had been read it was disclosed that the school committee had taken upon themselves to give one of the teachers leave of absence. At various times, as chainm of a committee, he had been called npoi to decide in the matter of a holiday. He •wanted to know where he stood'in this matter. The secretary Baid the old regnlatiom provided for committees granting up to three days' leave, but this rendition was not in force now. It was decided to write to the teacher, asking him for an explanation, also to the committee, in similar terms. _ —