Watersiders Resent Provocative Question In Examination Paper
P.A. WELLINGTON, Nov. 13. Resentment and indignation are reported to have been caused among officials and members of the Wellington Waterside Worker* Union by what they describe as an insulting question alleged to have been included in an examination paper presented at a State secondary school in the Wellington district. The question was stated by the secretary of the union, Mr E. A. Napier, to be, 1 Write a letter to one of the daily papers exposing the evils of the ' spelling system practised by the New Zealand waterside workers or drawing attention to any other evils."
At a very largely attended stopwork meeting to-day the watersiders demanded by resolution that full expression should be given to their feelings and that the union should protest to the Minister of Education at the earliest opportunity. Mr Napier stated that the parents of a child h'ad supplied to the union, in the interests of common fairness, a fifth form English examination paper which contained the question complained of. The father of the child, he added, was not a watersider.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26618, 14 November 1947, Page 6
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184Watersiders Resent Provocative Question In Examination Paper Otago Daily Times, Issue 26618, 14 November 1947, Page 6
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