SCHOOLGIRL TRUANT.
WORKING IN CITY SHOP,
PARENTS KEPT IN IGNORANCE. NOTES SENT TO TEACHER. The freedom allowed many children nowadays lias been exemplified in the recent action of a 14-ycars-old Auckland schoolgirL Sixteen weeks ago this girl, who is a pupil at a suburban school, obtained a position in a city stationery shop, entirely without the knowledge of her parents or her school-teacher.
Until a day or two ago she managed to keep both in complete ignorance of tho work she has been doing. Her parents imagined she had been speuding her timo at school and her teacher was under the impression that she had been kept at home.
Every morning, befoie leaving home, the girl filled her school-bag with books, according to her usual custom, arid every evening she made a prcteDce of doing homework. At frequent intervals she sent neatly-written and politely : wcrded notes to her teacher, signed in her mother's name and excusing her absence from school on various plausible grounds. Eventually, however, the lateness of her return home arousud her mother's suspicions, and a visit to her teacher rej suited in the ruse being discovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20115, 28 November 1928, Page 10
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189SCHOOLGIRL TRUANT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20115, 28 November 1928, Page 10
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