KEPT FROM SCHOOL
Child’s Guardian Charged NO LESSONS FOR YEAR Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 13. A Maori, Thomas McCaskill, the guardian of a child, was charged with failing to see that the child went regularly to school as required by the Education Act. The case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court by 'Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M. Constable Monson said the child had not been to school for a year. Although defendant had been repeatedly warned by the headmaster, he had not taken steps to see that the child attended school. Defendant said the child had been very ill, and for four months had received medical attention. The illness had left him a partial cripple, and it was on this account that he had been detained from school. Only recently had he been fit to walk to school from the pa. Constable Monson said the lad had been seen repeatedly on the streets in Te Aroha. The magistrate, in imposing a fine of 10/-, said be hoped that the small penalty would serve as a warning. In keepirg the boy from school defendant was unconsciously doing the child a great wrong.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 8
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192KEPT FROM SCHOOL Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 8
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