A Test Case.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 13 November 1909, Page 5

A Test Case.

IMPORTANT TO SCHOOL TEACHERS. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, November I 3» . A case of great importance andfc* interest to Education Boards antftpublic school teachers in New Zealand was decided by Judge Edwards at the Supreme Court to-day, when, he delivered judgement in the test case New Zealand Educational Institute v Marlborough EducatioiiBoard. The defendant Board* it* recent years had adopted a system of engaging its teachersfrom year to year, and only on these terms, and the action was brought by the Institute of Teachers, they asserting that such a systemwas not in accordance with statutory legislation. It was contended behalf of the defendant Board that the matter was one of a contract as* the engagement expired by the effluxion of time and was not a dismissal as suggested. The Court held that the system of the Marlborough Board was a breachof the Education Act and was beyond the power and authority of of the Board on the ground that by the system the provisions as to appeal and consultation of committees upon the termination of a* teacher's engagement, and the superannuation scheme, which provisions are statutory rights conferred upot*.teachers and committees, a»"e ignored** and rendered, if the system is effective, applicable to the teachers employed by the defendant Board.