PERMISSION REFUSED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 13

PERMISSION REFUSED

Navy League Lectures in School Hours A. refusal to allow the Navy League to carry on its programme of lectures at schools within school ho “-s was received bv the executive of the Al el IhJton branch at its meeting this week n°a letter from the Wellington Education Board. The letter stated that the board could not see its way clear to grant to the Navy League concessions which were not allowed to other bodies, and in future its lectures would have to be given outside sclwo hours, and at the discretion of the headmaster and school committees concerned. “This communication places us in an unfortunate position,” said the chairman,'Mr. A. Walker. “We have arranged visits to schools for years, and it is now going to be difficult to do this during the coming year.” He hoped that the Navy League would later get permission to visit schools as it had done during the past. The matter was left for later discussion. Sir James Grose, president of the Wellington branch, who has recently been in England, was welcomed at the meeting, and reported briefly on his presentation of a bronze memorial plaque to the destroyer H.M.S. Esk, and on other Navy League work in England. The secretary, Mr. R. Darroch, stated in his report that during the year 1934 he had visited 110 schools, with an aggregate roll number of over 17,000, in five of the nine Education Board districts in New Zealand, and had delivered a number of addresses on the subjects of disarmament, the Royal Navy, the merchant service and inter-Empire trade. The annual Navy League conference, normally to have been held in Christchurch, will take place in Wellington this year toward the end of March. Thursday, February 28, was recommended as a suitable day for a street collection.