SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13093, 5 June 1913, Page 2

SCHOOL TEACHERS.

ARE THEY a_Vm^ERV__NT_ ?

1 P y ,w n, ■ i m « ht - between " -the Rev IS_ tb-uV -^_ n J assis tant secretary t. ' SfJ lb \ e - ln R Sk^^ Leagne/an< r rlhl ™ v ? 0 T ley '' hea^aster of; th, I G^bprne school, *» to i whether schoo w be ul WC _ e _ CaUed Civil servants and although they';b6th / ,e_^re..sed oopo , witji hoth.sides being ofcttwaaine opinio ;' M yjhey were at the beginning, s ! S? J liA ™ eT , a ' rose out °* * questidr ,aaked l: by -Mr .A. Graham^about the-dis teachers and Civil servants wei< ' \v-mg uno^r in Australia in not tof ' -M 1 -W.J^, itt ipoli^ical quesfMs i. .Wjfe: W^w, whU fte position,^ yinvNeW Zealand, „ O y , * Tlie Rev. Sir Clark'soh, ih reply, __i c there was an unwritten law, precluding ..the,imembei_ of' the. Civil Service in 'New - f.ewpd ftem takjing. t .an active parijir the.',polit\cs of thevcoi^tryv' ,',- J,' y^K J. - Rowley rose, and', said.*h_< ,Mraark.soii, in v saying the teacher, •could; not -fake paH, ; 'in,, i p^liti'ca, 1 ,: I W_s .quite , Avrong. , . 4 ' ! At, , last, election,", he «aidv ; ''ohe-bf, our school. inspectors stood •for .member of Parliament, and other teachers have stood and have taken part in politics in other wafys." In one case a teacher Avas, elected. .He then had to resign his v appointment.;': , Mr Clarkson Avas quite Wrong .when, W said the teachers in. New . Zealand were under .the same disabilities • as^they .were -an Australia under t|ie Civil Service. Rev. Mr Clarkson ; I did 'hot say that. I said under the unwritten, .l^w Gpveammerit servants did -not -afce. ah adtp* part in things that had to do with the politics of the. country, and . teachers would be under no -disability, as regards tho Bible-in-schobls mdA'emeht if carried. Mr RoAvley : In New. Zealand, a teacher is not a Civil servant, arid thedisabili-ies that apply, to Civil servants do not appiy to teachers as they do in" ; Australia. Teachers. jare^ at liberty, to take, .part in political debates and " anything 1 reasonable. Teachers as a rule" try to avd_d that -sort of thing, but it is a jhattei^lfdr themselves. /. , y'i^i.'>Xr Clarkson : I Avould like to say that teachers iri New Zealand are "really''. Civil servants. If thev are. paid y&nji employed by the State* and pass Civil Service examinations, they' are Civil! servants. M|r : Clarkson further added that he had already stated there , were no real disabilities to. teachers, here, fo' tAvo head teachers— _\lr Flux and Alt Morris Barnett-r-had written paniphietk advocating Bible-teaching. ■ Mr -Rowley : No, they,-are not. Mr v Clarkson said in the first - place teachers, came under the superannuation, and he "had never heard of a Civil servant r ; ef;usivg ? hi3 superannuation 'because he was not a Civil servant. (Laughter^) Mr RoAvley said there was a clause in the .law Avhich proA'ided that teachers, should not be "classed" as Civil servants. Tho discussion then dropped, another question being asked the lecturer.