AUCKLAND SCHOOLGIRL CASE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2792, 2 October 1924, Page 3

AUCKLAND SCHOOLGIRL CASE.

QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT.

Air V. IT. Potter (Roskill) has given notice to ask the Minister of Justice whether he will take into cons’deration the desirability of amending the Police Offences Act to make if an offence punishable by fine or imprisonment for any person or persons to harbour an infant against the wishes of the parent or parents. “In t.he cusp of the Auckland schoolgirl, Afiss ATartin, who left home and absented herself from the Epsom Girls’ Grammar School and was secretly hidden from her mother and friends, no redress could be had by the mother owing to the absence of such a provision,” says Air Potter. “It is reported that under Imr ivther’s will girl refer re I to wii. inherit mu her able vialth. It ir 'cprrted th if counsel employed aga i -t. '.lie m advised the girl iii)-.' her friends that they were legally helpless. 1 '

SCHOOL BOARD TO HOLD INQUIRY. Auckland, October 1. The Grammar Schools Board, after discussion in committee on the case of Aliss Martin, who recently iii appeared and did not ret uni home for about a week, resolved to hold an inquiry open to the Press into allegations made by parents of pupils. “That an assistant-mistress at the Epsom Girls’ School has abused her position by influencing the religious views of one of her pupils Margaret ATartin.” The inquiry will be held on Monday. The principals in the case are to be requested to attend to give evidence. The teacher in question applied for and was granted two months’ leave of absence on account of ill health, a medical certificate being forwarded with the application.