Schoolboys on Strike.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 22

Schoolboys on Strike.

The boys who promoted a “strike” at a New Plymouth school on Empire Day "fell in." says the Taranaki "Herald.” The boys, 92 in number, after interviewing the secretary of the Board and the ehairman of the School Committee, returned to the school, all except four little chaps, arriving about 10.30 and were told by the headmaster that they would be admitted at 11 o'clock. From that time till 2 o’clock, the work of the school went on as usual, as if nothing unusual had happened. At 2.15 all those who had turned up at the proper time in the morning were assembled in the gymnasium, and after a short address by the headmaster as a mark of appreciation. were allowed to go. The others, representing pupils from all the standards from I. to VI., remained, the younger ones being allowed off at 3 o’clock, but those from Standards IV., V. and VI.. remaining till 4.30. Mr Dempsey massed those in one room and had a long, interesting and profitable conversation with them, occasionally interrupted by cheers from the Recreation Gounds, where a football match, Star v. Tukapa. was in progress. The master and the bbys were in complete sympathy, and the latter seemed to fully realise that their conduct was foolish ano unconstitutional. The “strike” is hardly likely to be repeated. Jl Jl