ABSENT FROM SCHOOL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2219, 28 May 1929, Page 7

ABSENT FROM SCHOOL

CTiJLDREN’S PARENTS SEALR AL PROSECUTED

Under the Education Act, proceeding were taken in the Magistrate's Court, before Air J. L, Stout, 5.M.,. yesterday, against two parents in Palmerston on; charges in respect of their children.

When H. O. Blackwell was charged with his child having failed to attend regularly at the West End School, ho admitted that was the case but, pleaded justification. Defendant stated that the gitild was absent owing bo having contracted a cold, and ho produced a medical certificate.

Mr 'Rutherford, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that on a, similar occasion, previously defendant had produced a medical certificate,! -but he would not give excuses when they wore requested. The department was not at all satisfied that tho child, which had been absent 44 days already this year, had been receiving regular treatment, and he suggested that the pros.eeiition might be held over if defendant complied. On defendant giving an undertaking that the child would receive proper treatment in the hospital the ease was adjourned for a. month.

A similar charge was preferred against Joe Johnson of Matipp ■■street* whoso child was enrolled at the Central School. Air ..Rutherford stated that the child which was 13 years of age, and very backward, being only in Standard 3, was absent on 99 days last year, and the worst feature of the case was that he was hawking goods with his father. A - - ■

The Magistrate imposed- a fino of lOs, with costs lOs.