DECISION REVERSED
Headmaster To Stay (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, July 14. The standing committee of the New South Wales Methodist Conference last night decided not to dismiss a school headmaster for his public encouragement of youths to defy the National Service Act. The Rev. D. A. Trathen headmaster for eight years of Newington College, a Methodist boys’ school in Sydney, started a controversy Within the school and the church when he wrote a letter to. a Sydney newspaper in June. In the letter he said he wanted to “support 20-year-olds to defy the National Service Act in good conscience and in loyalty to God rather than Caesar.” The council of Newington College decided on June 18 to dismiss Mr Trathen, but discovered the next day that it did not have this power. Mr Trathen was reinstated, then sent on leave until his position was settled. The Methodist Conference standing committee tonight voted 41-3 not to dismiss Mr Trathen, but found his statement “ill-expressed and did not take sufficient account of his responsibilities as a headmaster.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32349, 15 July 1970, Page 10
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