TEACHERS AND MILITARY SERVICE
"That the Education Board be requested -to lirge upon Y the Education Department the necessity for lodging appeals in the cases of all male teachers who may be called up by ballot for military service." This was the text of a motion placed befpre the Education Board by a. deputation from the School Committees' Association to-day. . ... In v replying to the deputation, the board chairman (Hon. J. G. W. Aitken) said that, personally, he would not take part in' asking .that any ' such..,-thing should be done as was suggested.. The board hsd resolved some time ago that it'would not appeal.for any teachers volunteering, and, that being so, appeals should not be made for teachers who did not go until they were compelled. He was, however, quite in sympathy with the committees if they meant that the Military Boards had been exempting many men of the First Division, and the Education "Board should ask that no teachers of the Second Division be sent until the whole of the First Division, let alone the teachers, was exhausted.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 152, 27 June 1917, Page 7
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