ABSENTEEISM AT ONEHUNGA SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10835, 19 August 1898, Page 6

ABSENTEEISM AT ONEHUNGA SCHOOL.

'At the Onehunga Polic ft r n „ . ', •■!*' 3 fore Messrs wiS C ° Urt yester % l«: I but the Bend,tnni Llß r had *** John ' swn also D ffij and 7s <»*■, John Thomb-i f » had notified fll mi sM <* «>'<* he V 5 : dozen times ofMwli 4 ? 0ller "' ,; « ii .- II aAed the Bench to COnditiott '■* 1 ' r him to can A. « JoUr the ca6Bto enable : child ?„ „i the .? ers 0'» who had nursed Ik Ken°oh P MrTh «**»* &•""»*« 5 applied to Dr PS ° D6ta(edthat^ " ' 1 the latter stated h» f ,°i a - certificate . »'-; ■ reprS a tiv fl nf i oue whia *» ■ fori tLp? i°5 d " cati °nßoardappliedll' Bench ti, Z i. rhe defe "dant asked the , colt 0 /*' 1 what he < ' FredS nl V"* harsh treatment.?•'.> • ' Kifey als Pleaded sickness is V '■ schooll »i He , had L his son Daniel to V $ ' age, would n h f "f y W"" over i 3*« rf ' that fan„ 0t t IB T «°- If ™" his m«hU f i did not!,? Sh , ould attend school, but ha V' I ob»v^ I£ 6 ° ohasti6e them when hey &■ ■ and wo H « ™* fined lftr, and «# : EmmHr, ° Wed a . month to M 'he Mm , - ' he™ ,M ay ' * Widow - stated 'hit she kept 1 ' Urinor y St ° me occasi onally to work for Hi :■ : ; hnthi he Wa ! fined 2s a "d '« costs. In iv T„»nf £""* fines were illflioted as '° Uot: :: -Joseph Bren 1 £1 Bs, and 7s costs; Thou.< : ! and 7. ' f nd^ 7s ' *«lrt Smith, &,' | InL. t° si -'> l rank MoCormick, 2s, and,?, | costs Annie M. Williamson, 14s, andcofc ,' : . | ".Mary Lloyd, Bs, with costs 7s. ' Edward > : - Jiang proved to the satisfaction of the Court '■■:; that bis daughter had been too sick to goto -;?. [:- drawn a «r-A he char 8 e aai,lßt him was ffitß - ■• S, Mara. With reference to all the cases, the : \, :.; «enon remarked that if the defendants had omy given the headmaster a valid reason for ' T looping their children away from school, they/ V H would not have been Proceeded against. i' " nen the school was open nine times a ireck, • .-: ?. parents were not compelled to send their " : aren lor more than two-thirds of the time,'../ ,' but if they broke that regulation, and failed * ' I to notify Mr. Mcintosh, the headmaster, of ,: . I me reason, they must take tho consequences. .1 1