QUESTION FOR BOARD
DUTY OF TEACHERS IN TIME OF EMERGENCY Whether teachers should remain with the children or do their duty to the community in the case of emergency was a question the Wellington Education Board was asked to determine last night by a deputation from the Wellington Headmasters’ Association. Mr H. M. Campbell said many teachers at present were members of the Home Guard, the National Reserve and the E.P.S., and they felt they would be between two duties in the event of emergency. They would like a direction from the board. When the question was later considered by the board, Mr L. J. McDonald moved that a sub-committee, consisting of Colonel McDonald and Messrs J. J. Clark, D. McCaskill, and the mover be set up to confer with other organisations with a view to having a scheme worked out to determine the duty of teachers in the case of emergency. The motion was carried. Mr Hyndham asked if this would also be applied to country schools. Mr McDonald said it would apply to all schools under the board’s control.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 20 February 1941, Page 4
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