TEACHERS FOR HOME SERVICE

Southland Times, Issue 24597, 20 November 1941, Page 4

TEACHERS FOR HOME SERVICE

NO APPEALS TO BE MADE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, November 20 The attitude of the Otago Education Board towards appealing for teachers who have been classified Grade II and Grade 111 for military service was clearly defined at the monthly meeting of the board today. It was explained that in general Grade II men were temporarily unfit and Grade 111 men unfit for overseas service. Most of these reservists, however, were liable to be called up for home service. The point was raised whether such men would be better employed in the schools than in clerical or stores work in the Army, but the board decided that it would not make appeals of any kind. Several members maintained that the whole question of releasing men was one for the tribunals—man-power committees or appeal boards. One member said the board had no responsibility in that direction. “If we suffer a shortage of teachers,” he said, “we just cannot heln it.”