QUESTION OF A SCHOOL HALF-HOLIDAY
application from rugby LEAGUE. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August J. The advisability of allowing school children a half-holiday to attend representative football matches was discussed al a meeting of the Auckland Education Board to-day when Hie New Zealand Rugby Football League requested a half-holiday for the Auckland schools on the occasion of the match between the English League team and the Auckland r . r, r •, 'l'he chairman (Mr. A. Burns) said if Hie schools were closed only boys would .•o to the match. ” "They are only small boys in primary schools.' and their time is coming,” said Burns pointed out the necessity for treating all football codes similarly. \ suggestion was made that schools which possessed a League team should 'Glowed n linlfMay. it wits decided to allow a half-holiday to those children who brought a request to this effect from their parents.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 259, 2 August 1928, Page 6
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