FINE IMPOSED ON PARENT
CHILD’S ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL “It seems rather hard on parents, but the law is that if children are absent from school without the excuse of being sick you are liable to penalties of 2s a week for each child absent,” said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, yesterday, when a Maori, Charles Martin, was lined 6s, costs 17s, for failing to see that his child attended school. On a second charge of this nature defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs only, 10s. The magistrate commented that the first child had apparently been “playing the wag,” but in the other case defendant probably had a good excuse for his daughter remaining home while her mother was ill.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 50, 2 March 1943, Page 3
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