TEACHER’S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 172, 7 July 1919, Page 2

TEACHER’S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL

FOR HIGHER GRADE.

Auckland, July 6.

Reserved judgment has been given by Mr. Justice Stringer in the recent action in connection with the 19181 teachers’ graded list. The plaintiff, al school teacher of Mangere, applied for) a writ of mandamus compelling the) .school inspectors of the Auckland Education District and as sueh grading 1 officers of the district, and the Director I of Education, to amend the 1918 list I lor the Dominion by restoring two! marks of which plaintiff was deprived! last year, plaintiff had successfully appealed to the District Grading Appeal] Board, but the board’s findings had J not been given effect to. | The Judge ‘granted a mandamus! directing defendant, W. J. Anderson, I in terms of the first part of the motion. Plaintiff, he said, was also en-) titled to costs, some portion of which | was caused by the quite unnecessary 1 obstacles which were thrown in the way of plaintiff’s solicitors in endeavouring to ascertain the facts necessfeiry to enable them to advise plaintiff as to his legal rights. lie would be al-1 lowed twenty guineas and disburse-( ments, to be paid by defendant Ander- ! son, but he would make no order with j regard to the costs of the other delen- t dants. !