THE PUPIL TEACHERSHIP QUESTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 108, 12 May 1896, Page 2

THE PUPIL TEACHERSHIP QUESTION.

The legal documents that have been drawn up m the question as to the appointment of pupil teachers to the Girls' School were read at the meeting of the Education Board this j morning, and also a quantity of correspondence which had passed between tbe Chairman, Secretary, and Board's solicitor relating to the matter. It appears that the solicitors have been unable to agree as to the statement to be laid before the Supreme Court, the Committee's solicitor putting m a counter claim and insisting on the inclusion of one or two clauses to which the Board's solicitor takes exception. The solicitors propose to argue the matter before the Judge either m Wellington or Blenheim, and the proceedings would " be of a much more expensive nature than at first anticipated. It was stated at the Board meeting that unless an agreement is arrived at the matter would have to be allowed to drop. In accordance with a suggestion made m a letter from Mr Seymour, the chairman, who was absent from the meeting this morning, the Board resolved to inform the Committee that as the Committee's solicitor had varied the original agreemont between the two bodies the Board cannot hold itself responsible for any farther costs of enquiry, and that the Chairman would be willing to oon r er with the Chairman of the Committee with a view of amicably settling the difficulty.