NOT POWER TO DISMISS
TEST CASE DECISION
MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.), AUCKLAND, This Day. Judgment in favour of a married woman teacher and against the Auckland Education Board was given by Ms Honour Mr. Justice Herdman today in. an important test case. The board, had asked the Court to decide whether a section of the Finance Act, 1931, empowered the board to dismiss any teacher who was married. The woman defendant contended that the Act empowered the board only to refuse employment in future to married women. . His Honour said that to-his mind it was plain beyond all question that the Legislature's object was to define the board's powers in relation to the appointment of teachers. The subject matter of sub-section 6 was the making of a contract of employment, not its termination. If power to refuse to employ a female married teacher iinpliedly existed before, it had: now been expressly given. Ho was satisfied that the new proviso concerned appointments alone, and had nothing to do with dismissals. The proviso was not a separate enactment, and must be considered in relation to tho whole of tho Education Acts. The construction he placed upon it involved no absurdity, |.aud the purpose pi! it was immistabable.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 6
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207NOT POWER TO DISMISS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 6
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