MISS PARK’S CASE
THE SECOND INQUIRY. POWERS OF’ THE MINISTER. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 25., Miss Park’s case was discussed again by the Education Board to-day. Ten members were present, and all spoke. They agreed with the action of the board’s committee in entirely exonerating Miss Park from the allegations of disloyalty, and many tributes were paid to her work as a teacher. A resolution was here passed advising' her, in her persona! interest, to attend the public inquiry ordered by the Minister of Education, but waiving the question of the legality of such an inquiry. The Chairman (Mr Forsyth), at the conclusion, asked the committee which sat at the first inquiry to attend at, the second. They might be unwelcome guests, but they had the right to be there. They should have the board’s solicitors to advise them. It was resolved that the committee should attend. Miss Rark's solicitor, Mr C. H. Taylor, states that, proceedings are being taken in tlie Supreme Court to lest the legality of the Minister of Education holding a second inquiry; also to test the power of the Minister in reepect to the claim that lie has the right to cancel public school teachers’ certificates.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18463, 26 January 1922, Page 6
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203MISS PARK’S CASE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18463, 26 January 1922, Page 6
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