ATTENDED COMPETITIONS
A OIRL ELOCUTIONIST.
HER PARENTS FINED.
MAG LSiTR ATE’S COMMENTS
(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., Oct. 12.
Recently the Wanganui Education Board decided that action should be taken against parents whose children were absent from school in order to attend competitions. The first local prosecution was heard this morning when the father of a girl attending the Linton School was proceeded against. The Truant Inspector said that the child had attended competitions at Wellington, Palmerston North and Christchurch and was absent fioin school on isixty-five occasions. Counsel for the defendant said the girl was never absent except on the occasions mentioned. It was the intention of the parents that the girl, who bad now won the.girl’s elocutionary championship of Palmerston North, go in for elocution. / The Magistrate : “I suppose the Education Board is getting tired of these competitions. ’ ’ Counsel: “Parents have the right to say in whait direction the child will be educated.”
The Magistrate: “Sending a child round to these competitions is not a question of education.” In imposing a fine of 2s on each of two charges, the magistrate said that if the father wanted the girl away from school to attend competitions, he would have to get leave for her to do so.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 October 1925, Page 9
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