TEACHING PROFESSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24699, 30 August 1941, Page 8

TEACHING PROFESSION

PATRIOTISM NOT IN QUESTION

TRIBUTE b¥ MR HOlX&N|>

(Q.C.) WELLINGTON, Aug, 29 "I will : say without reserve that practically all the .teachers Zealand are decent, law-abiding, honest and patriotic men and women.v the Leader of the Opposition,^Mr 5. G Holland* when paying a tribute/in the House of Representetiyesv to-dav to f.members.;, of the teachr ihg 'professijon,, ' "There,; 7nay; vii jbe an odd one 'or ;two. thfetr.are not," n he ; said; «but because of the v fact that they have such an influence oh- the:livesAc*llie:children thetosconscientious ;yiew? are. #mpha4sed;f .v= x " There -is? somer misgiving .im;, the minds -of ihepublic about the Mr Holland" continued, "but I, would like to pay a tribute to " tms~magnificent branch of the ; public * think it is worth remembering-that the first New Zealand V;C. of this war went to a member of ■. the teaching-pro-fession and I hope there is no, .suggestion by people that the teachers are not as Datriotic ,as anyone else,"; -.j; . Mr Holland suggested that a; message of appreciation; of- the work they . were doing should be sent to the raihk and file of the teachers; .'- " f-i^/J-Referring to Mr Holland's speech as ■ an "amende honorable," Mr G.?L. Carr \ (Govt;., Ti|h'?ru): saidv that, -.the vbush telegraph had been .working and .the torn toms beating. There had been'an orgy of primitive fetishism and the chief witchdoctor had put thehoodoo upon'his subordinates;' .' : ■')>> -■ ' ■:X Mr W. A; Bodkin" (Opposition, Central Otago) Said that Government mem-. bers bv staging a sham fight to, defend the teachinc profession had created the inference that an attack had been ,;made on" the teachers by. the Opposition. The member for\Timaru was an expert at n.isrepresentation. i