CHAMPION MEANNESS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 1411, 16 April 1902, Page 2

CHAMPION MEANNESS.

The ways of tho official pass all understanding. It will be remembered that some weeks ago a lady teacher in the Lytton Street School met with an accident by being thrown from her bicycle, and in consequence was incapacitated from work for some weeks. Another teacher was sent to take up the duties of the invalid. It came out at the meeting of the School Committee last night (but not officially) that the salary of the latter had been stopped during her involuntary absence, and the Education Board assigned, as the reason for so doing, that the Government had made no provision to pay the salary of the relieving teacher, and must apply that of the absentee to the purpose. This is certainly a most cruel action, and we hope that at the next meeting of the Education Board, to be held in Wanganui on Monday, Messrs Lethbridge and Pirani, who are the representatives of this district on the Board, will see that the young lady has justice done to her, and the amount withheld be paid over. In the meantime we certainly think that the School Committee should take up the cudgels and strike hard against so glaring an injustice, and such a mean one. Failing that, the householders will be only doing their duty to take up the action. If a private employer did a thing like that there would be trouble for him.