UNPOPULAR MEMBER.
COUNTRY SCHOOL COMMITTEE OTHER MEMBERS POWERLESS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUROH, this clay. A country school committee wrote to tho Canterbury Education Board to-day stating that it had carried a motion that a certain man should be put off the committee, "as \vc could not see that we could carry on with him." "Would it bo necessary," the committee asked, "to elect another member in his place?" "When the letter was read at a meeting of the board a member said, "Get a gun!" The board decided to inform the school committee that a member is entitled to sit 011 a committee until he resigns, and that the board has 110 power to interfere.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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115UNPOPULAR MEMBER. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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