VICTORY FOR TEACHERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 268, 13 November 1909, Page 5

VICTORY FOR TEACHERS.

AGAINST THE MARLBOROUGH

EDUCATION BOARD.

DECISION OF THE SUPREME ,-.'--,,. v.-i ■.■•■■■: OOtJB«;i-■: • ir' ■

[PE1»8 AHSOOIAMOH.] WELLINGTON; ;Kov. 13. A ease of. great imp^or^ance and interest to* the Education Boards and public school teachers .of.'New Zealand was decided by Mr Justi6o Edwards in the Supreme -Court to-day, when he delivered judgment^ in the test fase New Zealand Educational Institute y. the Marlborough Education Board. :

/The defendant Board of recent years adopted a system of engaging its teachers from year to year, and only on those terms, and action was by the Institute to .ascertain if such system were in accordance with, statutory legislation. It was contended in behalf of the defendant Board that the matter w,as one,,of 'contract. Engagement expired through effluxion of time, and not through dismissal, as suggested. The Court held that the system of the'Marlborough Board was a breach of the Education Act an-d beyond the power and. authority of the Board, on the grounds that by, the system the provisions as to, appeal, consultation of committee upon termination of teacher's engagement, and^the, superannuation scheme,., whichUprovisions are statutory rights conferred' upon teachers and committees, are ignored, and rendered, if the system is effective, inapplicable to teachers employed by the defendant Board.