ENTERTAINING SCHOOL PUPILS AFTER HOURS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6664, 18 July 1928, Page 8

ENTERTAINING SCHOOL PUPILS AFTER HOURS

HIGH SCHOOL BOARD \ OBJECTS TO PRACTICE.

Should, entertainers be' allowed to give performances at schools after hours and charge the pupils for admission? • . ' ■ ■ , .This question was threshed out by the Palmerston North High School Board of .Governors last 1 night when the Director, of the Technical School (Mr. G. G. Hane asked for a ruling Mr. W. F. Durward entered a prompt objection to such a practice , No school should ■bo used for exploiting the pupils, ho said. Members drew attention to the possibility of the entertainments being educational and that often part of the proceeds were given towards some school -object. Mr. Durward said he objected to the practice at any time., The principle was wrong. Mr. W. L. Fitzherbert asked what difference there was in the boys paying for an entertainment at a school and at a theatre. Mr. Durward: The principle is just the same as selling cigarettes in the school. Mr. W. T. Penny: What if the entertainment is one of advantage to the pupils. Mr. Durward: I don’t care if it is. It is wrong so long as the pupils have to pay. The Board decided not to allow after school performances. Messrs W. R. Birnie, W. F. Durward, and G. G. Haneox (Director) will be the Palmerston North Technical School delegates at the Technical Schools conference in Wellington next month Mr. W. F. Goddard, accountant to

Ihe Taranaki Education Hoard, has been selected for the position of assistant commercial teacher at the Palmerston North Technical School,