CHILDREN ON STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20882, 26 May 1931, Page 8

CHILDREN ON STRIKE.

REFUSAL TO ATTEND SCHOOL.

approval of parents. INCONVENIENT RAILWAY TRAIN. [BY TELEGRArH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.] V A 111 I. Monday. With approval of the local representative on the School Committee and of their parents, the children living at Athenree and Bowentown and attending the Katikati Public School, have gone on striko as a protest against the refusal of the Railway Department to alter the hour of departure of the morning train from 7.35 to 8 o'clock. The grievance is that the train invariably runs lato by half an hour to an hour and that with the present timetablo tho children have to leave home for the station before sunrise.

Tho parents say they will keep the children at home until such time as an alteration is made and the Auckland Education Board has been communicated with on tho subject. Sixteen pupils aro affected.

The matter ha 3 been considered by the Auckland Education Board, which has placed tho facts before tho Education Department. The board has endeavoured to arrange a motor-bus conveyance for the pupils, but tho view taken by the department is that schoolchildren should travel by train wherever possible. A further reply from the department is now being awaited.