Bond ‘discretionary’

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33783, 4 March 1975, Page 3

Bond ‘discretionary’

<N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, March 3. The Taihape farmer who is fighting feather bonds wants the Director - General of Education to reveal bond recovery statistics. Mr P. G. Clark, who has refused to pay the $331 bill he owes on his daughter’s bond, said today that depart-

■ mental statistics would re--11 veal the iniquity of the bond.'ing system. In the year his daughter left teachers’ college, the t! drop-out rate was 50 per ■ cent. He would not be surprised if only half these students repaid their bonds, he . said. “I believe the department’s statistics will show just how [ discretionary the bonding system is. Principals of teachers’ colleges have the ; right to decide who will have . to repay the bond and who i won’t.

i “But legislation as manda-i tory as that covering the' [bonding system simply can-! not be discretionary.” Mr Clark will write to the! director-general and request,; the information by right of{ being a taxpayer. i He will also launch a peti-i ition this week calling for the | abolition of the bond. The time had come to sort! 'out those who sincerely sup->

:ported him and those just' 'giving lip-service, he said. I Mr Clark is still waiting I for a bailiff to act on a dis-! 'tress warrant served on him I last week, which enables; 'goods to the value of the $331! !he owes to be taken from his! , property.