RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.
ARE THEY WORTH DEPENDING P (By; Telegraph.-Prcßß Association.) Ashburton, March 14. At tho last meeting of tlio Ashburtott Technical Classes' Association a ciicular was rcccived from tho I lis po ctor-G ell oral of Schools proposing tlmt the failure • of free-place students at the technical schools to comply with the conditions of the Defence Act should be held as an infraction ■of tho condition of their tenure of free places. ■The matter was referred to n committeo consisting of Messrs. J. B. Christian and R. A. Collins, which, at a meeting of the association this evening, f'eported as follows:— "The youth is licit >to the country in. which he lives, claims and enjoys his rights and privileges of citizenship, and, if lie refuses to tako his part in defence of these, ho forfeits his right to continuo his education at tlio cost of the' State, which he is unwilling to support or defend." After a short discussion the report was adopted with one dissentient (onc of tha two schoolmasters' on tho association). Nine members woro present..
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 6
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179RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 6
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