PLAYING TRUANT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1422, 2 December 1886, Page 3

PLAYING TRUANT.

♦ The head-miator of tho Beresffird street school, Auckland, wiling io the city schools committee, states that the evil of truant playing is largely on the increase, and that added to this, -lure is an h e - ».-ao of other dangerous practices am mg the scholars, such aa ttie for bug of t-xcus< i for personal use or for mh- Ho kt;o rof several cases of this k-io in w'Hch the s ms of r- speetftble parents hud figureatnl in which groups nf abaente-s had boon f >un:i in company that could not ful to Hasten their moral ruin Tho *-icks resaric it > by scholars to intero pi Hie primed m ices forwarded to parents i quiring for the re»sou of the absence of the c'i.iiroa had induced teachers to resort to he post office as a medium for a c ring transmission of tho notices Fvja here again a difficu'ty was mat, for the post nun w»a washed, and one ab.-onto obtained from him and burned the printed nnt’ce before it re;'.c v ed the hands of h s pa'o it*, simply in order that the boy might continue to en Jo * playi ig truant. The cu prit in this ins.ance was 11 y-’ara old A o her bov, six y.-ars o’d, h d, by tho aid of a skiilfu ly worded accoutre! for h a a i-im-e by alleging “a necossbv w!-i ib exists! for him to work in aid of his funily.