SMOKING BAN LIFTED
Auckland Education Board's Decision ATMGSPHERE OF TENSION (By Telegraph — Press &asucmlion.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. By unanimous agreement, the Auckland Education Board, at its meeting to-day, on a motion by the chairman, Mr T. U. Wells, lifted the ban they previously placed on smoking by teachers in school hours, and on sehool premisfes. They replaced it with a motion expressing strong disapproval of smoking by teachers during school hours. xt being stated that the question could safely be left to the head teachers. When the ban was first imposed it was to profeet school buildings from the danger of fires. Later the moral question was raised, and this beeame the major issue at to day's meeting. Throughout a lengthy discussion * no rnember made use of the ashtrftys placed on their desks, and there was an atmosphere of tension. As ' soon as agreement was reached pipes and cigarettes wero produced and a haze of ismoke rose abov© the aubsequent diauuulous.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 3
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