DISLOYALTY.

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 929, 2 May 1918, Page 6

DISLOYALTY.

Mr. Massey Puts His Foot Down. MR: Massev deserves to be congratulated upon having interfered in the case of the man Mayo, who, despite his having been convicted of making a disloyal. statement and having lieen fined £25,. has been taken back into the employment of an Auckland educational institution. Mr. Massey telegraphed to the chairman of the governing body, who. it appears, was absent when the resolution was passed, and the matter is now to be reopened. It is simply scandalous that when the Empire is engaged in a straggle

for its life, members of, any educational body should have acted in this ,X----way. Once a. man. has been convicted '■" of making a disloyal statement, "no matter how good his previous record for loyalty may have been, he " be held unfit to hold, any official position, educational or otherwise. *;.. *, *■■*..■'■■■:*. If the governing body of any institution cannot recognise where its dutylies it should be brought sharply to book by the threat of an immediate discontinuance of such subsidy or other financial support it may receive from. the State. Once before, in the notorious Von Zedlitz case, .Mr. Massey proved to an educational body that he' would stand no nonsense where public interests were concerned, and we trust x he will be equally firm in this Auckland case.