MR P.R. PEACOCKE AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7258, 21 February 1885, Page 3

MR P.R. PEACOCKE AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

At the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday, the following report was read from the special committee appointed to inquire into the bankruptcy of Mr. Peacocke, one of the Inspectors :— . ■' ■ Your committee have received from Mr. Peacooke a detailed statement of his expenditure for the patt two years. From the statement submitted to the com* mittee by Mr. Peacoeke, it Appears that during tht put two years he ha* applied one-third of hie ■ salary towards the redaction of olddebti. It does not appear to the committee that Mr. Peacoeke has been u> ng extraTaeantl;. Mr. Peacocks'* financial position i<no worse new than it was in May, 1878. when he flrrt became an officer of the Board. His debts represent the «»mt liabilities as those which existed prior to May, 18781 although in one or two instances the creditors have charged. '1 he committee believe taat Mr. Peacock* was compelled to place his affairs under the Bankruptcy Act owing to an order of the District Court for hii imprisonment! and owing also to an unsaWtfled judgment for upwards of £800 recently entered against h(m at the suit of Mr. H. H. Luak. - (Signed) Bamdel Luke, Thi<o. Coofer. ■ After some discussion as to whether Mr. Peacoeke had sent in his resignation to the Board, »aa well as to the committee, Mr. Cooper was of opinion he had done eo to the committee, and not to the Board.—Mr. Clark thought that Mr. Peacoeke had been endeavouring to pay off daring his service at the Board debts which had been inou'rred prior to his employment by the Board.—Mr, Goldie moved, "That he be now asked to leaign." He understood that he had owed the same money since his connection with the Board, and had made no effort to pay it off. Hβ was not competent to do the work of inspectory. He had been taken into the offioe aa a clerk, and then dropped into the position of an inspector. He considered that the question of inspectorship should be properly discussed now that they had the opportunity of dropping one of them.—Mr. Cooper thought the motion, if carried, would be a direct vote of censure upon the committee.— Mr. Carr held that Mr. Peacoeke had duly considered his position when he bad tendered his resignation to the committee, and he would support Mr, Goldie's motion.— Professor Tucker, in-replying to Mr. Goldie'a assertions of Mr. Peaoocke's incompetenoy, wondered how in his financial position, Which had hung over him for so long, he had done his work. If some arrangement oould be come to, he thought he was quite com* petent to fill the position until it was shown to be otherwise. He thought they had wandered from the point.- -Professor Aid is wad of opinion that the question of the bankruptcy of an official in the employ, of the Board was a very damaging thing to them, but he felt he must leave the responsibility which had been undertaken when they engaged him, and support the resolution.—Mr. Goldie, with the permission of the Board, then withdrew his motion.—Mr. Clark supported the report, and moved the adoption of it, which was put and carried.-— Mr. t lark then moved, "That the bankruptcy of Mr. Peacooke, on account of the special oircnmetanoee of the case, doe* not render it necessary for his connection wilih the Board to be terminated."—Mr. Gcldie opposed the motion, and moved as an amendment, "That the matter be postponed fora week." Hβ sppjee strongly on the subject, saying that men in the position of Mr. Peacock, who could not pay their debi;s from the causes that made him incapable of paying his, should not be kept in their -employ.—Mr. Cooper considered that Mr. Peacocks had not shown that he was guilty of immoral conduct towards the Board. By agreeing to the motion it was carrying the report -a step further, in showing that hie conduct did not call for censure.—Mr. Clark replied, and a division being taken the motion was carried, Professor Tucker, Messrs. Cooper, Moss, Clark, and the Chairman voting for it, and Messrs. Carr and Goliio and. Profesuor Aldis against.

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