"GENTLEMEN, PLEASE!"

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 20

"GENTLEMEN, PLEASE!"

HEADMASTER AND SECRETARY "WON'T YOU COME OUTSIDE?" (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. "Won't you take my word for it?" "How can I when I know the facts are different?" "Then would you care to come outside?" For a few moments the atmosphere at a meeting of the Hamilton High School Board of Governors, yesterday afternoon, was electrical. A difference between the principal of the school, Mr. E. Wilson, and the secretary of the board, Mr. R. English, led to the principal challenging the secretary to settle it outside. Mr. English was explaining that each child paid 10/ per annum for magar zines, library and sports, when Mr. Wilson interjected -that only 9/ was collected. The additional shilling for the library fund was voluntary. Mr. English: It has to be paid. Mr. Wilson: It is not compulsory to pay it.' It is put into a box. Mr. English: Well, I know that it is collected. Mr. Wilson: Don't you take my word for it? Mr. English: How can I when I know differently? Mr. Wilson (quickly, and rising to his feet): Then would you care to come outside ? Mr. English No, I won't go outside. The Chairman (Mr. C. L. MacDiarmid): Gentlemen, please! Mr. Wilson: Perhaps .this is not the proper place to deal with the matter. We can settle it in another way. The incident closed when Mr. MacDiarmid remarked that he did not see that the matter of seeking a subsidy on the shilling for the library fund could be carried further.