TEACHERS APPEAL COURT.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1902, Page 5

TEACHERS APPEAL COURT.

A SCHOOLMASTER VINDICATED. |BT TKLKGRArii — fUKSS ASSOCIATION^ WANGANUI, 6th April. The Teachers' Court of Appeal has been enguged during the past three days hearing the appeal of Mr. It. 1\ Clarkson, lute head teacher of the Normanby School, against the action of the Wsinganui Education Board in dismissing him. The Board's contention was that the Inspectors' reports on the Noraianby School examinations were not favourable. Mr. Clarkson held that he had not been guilty of neglect, and that the faults which might have been found in his work had been duo to circumstances over which he hud no control. He stated that children attending the school were rendered unfit for active mental work by the fact that they had to milk a number of cows before coming to a school. The -dairying industry, ho considered, was inimical to good results being obtained by any teacher. The Court upheld the appeal, and ordered the reinstatement of Mr. Clarkson.

A Taranaki correspondent, who occupies a position of responsibility, and hi? been 'connected with tho dairy m-iubtry for 30 years, writes to us that ny.nwitfr what the Dairy A&scniat on or tin* d&ity companies may say, it remains an indisputable fact that "hundreds of young children in the. district are simply white slaves. He has in his possession a letter from a young man who came out from England some six months ago, in which he complains bitterly about the long hours at "cow spanking" — from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m.