"READ THE ACT."
MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE TO A PARENT. "I should like to ask you Worship if you don't think it is tho duty of the inspector to call upon the parents r.iul soe if tliero is any reasonable excuse icr the child's absence before bringing a case and putting 1 the parents to Iho expense and inconvenience of coming here when there is no fault 011 their part?" asked a fat nor who was charged, before Mr. u. G. J>id(l ell, S.M., with failing to send a child to school. ■ Ilis Worship: "The Act throws upon you the onus of obtaining a certificate. If you did not get an exemption certmcato you must be held to blame." ' The father: "Well, I v,as not aware of the Act." His Worship: lou should be awaro of the Act. It has been in. force since 1908." Tho father: "Well, there is another thing that I want to draw attention to. Tho inspector has notified other people His Worship: "Well, you had better get a copy of the Act ami read it." The inspector said that no particular claim had been inado for an exemption certificate. His Worship: "The defendant knows now that it is his duty to get an exemption."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 4
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207"READ THE ACT." Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 4
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