SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS
ABSENCE OF TEACHERS REQUEST FOR RELIEF (Pnr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. R. A. Wright (Coal., Wellington Sub.) asked whether the Government was aware that a number of primary school teachers would he absent from schools attending the university examinations during November, and as that was a critical month for children, owing to their annual examinations being in progress, whether the Government would temporarily appoint as substitutes some of the unemployed teachers. The Rt. Hon. 0. W. Forbes said that absence due to examination requirements was not essentially different from absence due to ill-health. When teachers were absent for only a day or two, the headmaster could usually make arrangements for carrying on temporarily without extra assistance. If, however, so many of the staff were absent at one time even if only for a few days, then the senior inspector might approve of relief, provided he was satisfied that the school could not othewise be conducted with reasonable efficiency.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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