TEACHERS AND RAILWAYS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 11

TEACHERS AND RAILWAYS

A QUESTION OF FSES PASSES,

4- (11. IBIiEfIRAPK.—PRESS ASSOCIATIOH.j

AUCKLAND, 20th _}lay. An explanr-tion from the director of Education (D:. 1. Anderson) as to haw it comes about that the teachers of 'certain denominational Ephools .ire \iermitted to travel fffo o;i ti;e railways was received ■with interest by the Minister of Education <md the menrbei's of the Auckland ■Education Bosrd to-day. Addressing the Board, Mr. Pary wid :"I wish to-refer to tha freo (wrcajre of private qenominstional ter.cccvs on the r".;Hvays. It r.cpeaiv that, under the present regula-tio-is "

X>r Anderson : "It is not under regulations."

Mr. P 4 irr : "Oh. how is it done, then ?"

Di\ Anderson ". "Ministerial approval was jriven seme time ago; and has never been reversed." Ho added, that only threo districts were concerned i-.i the ■matte!'.

Mr. Parr : "It appears that *in some cases these- private tenensrs are carried fi-ee on the railways, while-our teachers aro not. I kno">v of some, eight or nine teachsi's beins carried in this vaiv, while Stato teachers have asked for the same concession and bean -refused, I feel this •state of tlnnes cannot bo ailnwed to continue. It is not lexical. I have quite m?.de u.p my mind that this inodnsrruity must ceass, ?nd' ail teachers in -future must be placed- on the same level in this respect."