Persistent Edgecumbe Truant Back At School
On Tuesday Tui Ratahi, father of a 12-year-old Edgecumbe boy who had refused to go to school, was convicted and fined 14/- and costs when Mr E. L. "Walton S.M. heard further •evidence in the Auckland Education Hoard’s case which had been adjourned from the previous Magistrate’s Court day. On that occasion ‘there was evidence that nothing the parents could do would make the "boy attend school, and the Magistrate adjourned.it for the Child Welfare Officer to investigate. On Tuesday the Board’s attendance officer, prosecuting, told the "Court that the boy had gone back to school quite readily after the Child Welfare Officer had seen him: He added that, if the parents’ excuse were held to be valid, the education Act would be a mere scrap ■•of paper. Mr B. S. Barry, for defendant, said the effective remedy ..seemed to have been a threat that the boy might be committed to a Iliome. i
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 4, 5 December 1947, Page 5
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160Persistent Edgecumbe Truant Back At School Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 4, 5 December 1947, Page 5
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