MOUNT ROSKILL SCHOOL

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 5

MOUNT ROSKILL SCHOOL

m LEGAL PROCEEDINGS DROPPEDMS HOJ3BS NOTIFIES HIS RESIGNATION. At the meeting of the Auckland Education Board to-day a communication was received from the Mount Roskill School Committee, through its solicitor, stating that the legal proceedings against Mr O'Donoghue, head teacher, for an injunction restraining him from continuing in charge of the Mount Roskill school, in opposition to their instructions, had been dropped. The chairman stated that he was very glad that the matter was settled at last. Mr Hobbs asked what further action the Board intended to take. The chairman: No action whatever. Mr Hobbs: I do not intend to remain on this Board. I intend to send in my resignation. The Mount Roskill Committee has been misled and deceived. Mr Harris: By whom? Mr Hobbs: They were given to understand by this Board that the whole question would be relegated to the annua] meeting of householders, and that their wishes would be considered. They had expressed their vi?ws, which had not been given effect to. The Board had gone out of its way in order not to support the committee. He could not understand the action of tihe chairman in the matter. He felt very deeply on the subject. The committee should be asked either to retract or to prove their complaints, which had not been investigated. The whole question had been carefully and cleverly worked to prevent the time issue coining before the Board. He felt it was his duty to show his sympathy •with the committee of the district, and Mount Roskill in particular, and he therefore intended to send in his resignation. The chairman: I am very sorry to hear that. The secretary explained that the position was that Mr O'Donoghue had forwarded to the Board his reply to four charges made by the committee. He was subsequently notified of the legal proceedings, and discussion of the matter was left over until these had been completed. Mr Stalrworthy considered that the six charges of the committee should be inquired into. He moved that the reply of Mr O'Donoghue be sent to the committee. The chairman said that the committee had forestalled the Board in their action in connection with the Supreme Court proceedings. He moved as an amendment that no further action be taken. Mr Hobbs admitted that the committee had been hasty, but the Board should treat the committee with equity. They believed that they wjpuld perhaps be called on to pay the expenses of both sides, and had become alarmed. The Board had not shown the slightest sympathy with the committee. The amendment of- the chairman was carried by five to four, Messrs. Luke. Harris, Parr, Greenslade, and McKenzie voting for it and Messrs. Hobbs, Edgecumbe, Stallworthy, and Bagnall acainst it. "