ILL-HEALTH CERTIFICATES.
IN TEACHING PROFESSION. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, September 17. "You can get a doctor's certificate as a guarantee of illness anywhero for 10s. 6d.," was a startling statement made by a member of tho Education Board this morning. He wont on to state as'follows:—"l could, without trouble, in a very short time, got three certificates stating that I had nourasthenia or some other fancy think like that, and that I needed six months absolute rest." The statement was not allowed to go unchallenged, but it was not repudiated with' any degree of feeling. One board member told a story of a case in which an assistant teacher had a doctor's certificate and was about to take six weeks' 'leave. The head teacher, however, raised such a hullaballoo that the certificate was torn up.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 7
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135ILL-HEALTH CERTIFICATES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 7
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