SCHOOL CAPS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 208, 17 August 1927, Page 4

SCHOOL CAPS

■ ■ - — - UNIFORMITY INSISTED UPON. PLACE OF MANUFACTURE IMMATERIALIn yesterday’s issue of “The Tribune’’ there appeared a letter stating that the headmaster of the Hastings Higli School had posted a notice on a board at the school that pupils were not to wear New Zealand-made caps. A representative of the “Tribune” investigated this this morning and found that the statement was incorrect.

When posting the notice the headmaster instructed a master to take a register of the boys who had already purchased other than regulation caps, who were to be told that they could wear the caps, but that any nonregulation caps purchased after the warning had been given would not be allowed to be worn. If this was not made clear to the boys, it should have been, for such was the beadmaster’s intention.

As further correspondence on this subject had been submitted for publication to-day, the “Tribune” representative waited upon the board and obtained the following statement: — “It is the wish and intention of the Board of Directors and of the headmaster that, so long as any tradesman in the town is prepared to supply caps which conform to the regulation cap, no restriction whatever should be placed on the pupils purchasing them The difficulty has arisen because certain tradespeople in the town are supplying a cap which does not conform with the regulations, and some of the pupils nave been supplied with these caps. In order that there mav be uniformity the headmaster has notified pupils of the names of the shops where the caps caff be obtained.

“So far as the board and the headmaster are concerned, so long as the regulation cap is supplied it does not matter in the slightest whether the cap is made iff New Zealand or elsewhere, or what shop it is purchased 'll •