ACCIDENTS TO PUPILS.
GRAMMAR BOARD WORRIED.
LIABILITY TO MEMBERS.
Members of the Auckland Grammar School Board were concerned to hear at yesterday's meeting that they might be held personally responsible for liabilities resulting from accidents to pupils.
In order to make provision for such cases, the board decided at the last meeting to approach the Education Department with a view to taking out an insurance policy. The reply received was that the Department had decided to take no action, but "if the board could effect a policy covering both pupils and teachers at a moderate cost, it should probably consider doing so." .
This reply the members of the board considered too vague to warrant them taking definite action.
"But if a pupil gets hurt, and wins a claim for damages against this board, who is going to pay?" asked Mr. H. S. W. King.
The chairman. Professor A. P. W. Thomas, stated that the board had no fund to meet such a ease, upon which Mr. W. Ward Baker suggested that it tnijrht fall on the members personally. It was decided to obtain the opinion of the board's solicitors on this yxunt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 229, 27 September 1928, Page 11
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192ACCIDENTS TO PUPILS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 229, 27 September 1928, Page 11
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