School ATTEki>ANCE Act. — Truant inspectors Hallet'and Crawford summoned half a dozen parents to the Magistrate's Court at Timaru yesterday for neglecting to send children to school. The mothers I of the children appeared in most cases. One pleaded her own illnesß, and the fact of her having no one but her little girl to attend to her. The others pleaded want of boots or o£ clothes fit to wear to school. The Bench told defendants that these things were not excuses provided for in the Act, and orders were made that the children should be sent regularly. In one case a child was baIA to be unwell, and the mother was told that she should apply to the School Committee for a certificate of exemption on that ground. One case was dismissed, the defendant swearing that the child , in question was' over thirteen years of age. SPRING-BLOSSOM TEA, j
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Star (Christchurch), 23 May 1895, Page 4
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