INTERESTING CASE BEFORE SUPREME COURT
IS REGULATION NO. 58 ULTRA VIRES?
JUDGE AND THE AFFIDAVITS
The hearing of the Park case, adjourned from Wednesday, May 24th,- was continued at the Supreme Court yesterday before Hiq Honour Mr Justice Salmond. The previous sitting was occupied With legal argument as to whether the Minister for Education (the Hon: C. J. Parr) had power to hold an inquiry into certain matters for which Miss Jean Cladys Park, a teacher at the Carterton District High School, was responsible. Mr M. Myers appeared as counsel for Miss Park, and the Minister Was represented by the SolicitorGeneral (Mr w. C. MacGregor, K.C.), Sir John Findlay, K.C., and Mr H. Hart, of Masterton. Briefly, the point at issue was whether Regulation S 3 was or was not ultra vires. The section r6ads as under:—
“The Minister for Education shall have power to cancel any certificate or license to teach if the holder of the certificate or license shall at any time be proved guilty of immoral conduct or gross misbehaviour within the meaning of the Education Act, 1908. He shall also have power for sufficient cause shown to suspend any certificate or license to teach for such period as he thinks fit.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11225, 2 June 1922, Page 7
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