Board v. Committees

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 84, 9 January 1890, Page 3

Board v. Committees

It has just been found out in a certain quarter that there is an Education Act; and that in one of itd clauses it says: "Ti e Board of each district shall be entitled to appoint teachers for every school under its control, or to remove such teachers from one' school to any other school within the district." The reader apparently stopped reading when he had got thus far, but it so happens that the clause does not end there. Indeed the fratner of the Act seems to have considered it desirable that, ihe committees should have a part in this, fur the clause concludes with the following significant proviso : " Provided that the Committee may recommend teachers to the Board for appointment, and may also recommend the suspension or dismissal of any such teacher ; but no appointment, suspension, or dismissal shall take place until the committee has been first consulted." This to most people will seem to knock the bottom out of the idea that the Committees are merely nonenities when a question of appointment has to be considered. •'. c may also mention that it is not a month since one of the - upreme Court Judges gave one of the Northern Education Boards very distinctly to understand that the Committees have some powers, for he upheld a Committee in insisting on its right to he "first consulted," and further ruled that "to cousult" meant "to take advice with a view to acting upon it." — Manawatu Times.