PUPILS WORKING AT CHRISTMAS
Headmaster Asked
For Report
Employers’ demands that young people taking Christmas holiday work should leave school a short time before the third term ends to avoid penalty payments will be examined by the Burnside High School board before it reports to the Christchurch Post-primary Schools’ Council.
Starting the school year earlier, shortening the August holidays, and other means of meeting the situation, discussed by other boards, were canvassed at Bumside last evening, but the board there decided to ask the headmaster (Mr C. Cross) for a considered report.
Mr Cross said he thought it objectionable to encourage pupils to leave school early. Most would have a first loyalty to the school. But Mr A. F. Foley said that Christmas employment might be the only way some could get spending money or a holiday. Mr W. J. Gardner said that employers might approach the trade union movement for some relaxation of penalty payments, rather than interfere with the last days of the school year.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 11
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