Uniform Issue 'Too Unimportant'
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Fei>. 23. The Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) will not intervene in the Rangltoto College uniform dispute. Mr Kinsella said on Saturday, after a meeting of the school board of governors the previous night that the matter was “far too
Minister to be involved. Mr R. L. Sie has refused to allow his 13-year-old daughter, May-Ling, to wear
the school’s uniform on the grounds that it is flammable. The school has refused instruction to May-Ling, although she continues to attend in ordinary clothes. Mr Kinsella said: "The board did not ask me to take any action, nor do I intend to.
“ The hoard complete jurisdiction over the day-to-day running of the school, and that includes uniforms.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 1
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