THE EDUCATION BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9331, 23 January 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE EDUCATION BOARD.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sni,— At last meeting of the Education iioarcl the chairman mentioned the case of a party who was under an obligation to serve the board for a certaiu time, but .who had goue to bdmburga to study medicine. It is well enough known who he was referring to, and I am not putting supposititious initials when I designate him A. B. Surely the chairman knows, or should know, that it was the board who were entirely to blame. If the board bind any person to serve them they bind themselves to employ. This is a law which they cannot get over, and so long as there is an appeal to London no law in New Zealand can get over it Now, in the case I refer to, what are the facts? The board not only did not employ him, but put obstacles in the way of him being employed, by not sending his name forward to committees, and yet they have the effrontery to blame him. Besides, why bring up the matter now when he has left the colony and is not here to defend himself? Knowing, as they must do that whenever lie found that his name had not been sent forward he at once wrote repudiating the engagement, and then was the time to take it up, and not now, when his back is turned, perhaps the letter he sent was too warn), too true, for them to treat it- otherwise. .The fact is iA. 8., who is known amongst his friends and acquaintances as the soul of hoiSQin^hati never signed the bond j but as he knew taiß '.vats m\ oversight, he nevw for a Bwmeni dyqamfc of doing olhcrwisa than i tullilling his morel obligation to the board, m\A \ applied foi1 a certain situation vacant, being tUo j xotvosfc class of nialc teacher employed by the i board that v»as rfantecL There Is n Q exousefof the board | his name was not sent in *Q thS

committee,_ and he at once wrote, as I have already said, repudiating the contract which the^board had failed to fulfil their part of. Now, there are a great many young men, " ami women too," who arc in v quandary as to what they arc to do. They are under a contract to serve the board for so long, and can't get employed to enable them to fulfil it. Well, I think it should be known that all they have to do is to give the board notice that they are ready to carry out their agreement; and if the board do not within a reasonable time employ them, then they are free to do as they choose, unless the board choose to pay them for doing nothing.—l am, &c,

An Acquaintance of A. B Dunedin, January 18.