FATHER LEADS THE WAY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 518, 30 March 1920, Page 2

FATHER LEADS THE WAY.

Being of a practical turn of mind, members of the Pukekohe School Committee are keenly desirous of seeing a large number of students enrolled 'in the various technical classes. Especially do they wish to see the woodworking and cabinetmaking class (7 to 9 p.m., Tuesdays) well patronised. In order to set an example to the lads, six of the committee have volunteered to become students, and to endeavour to bring along a friend each. That is the right way to go to work* for example was ever better thaa precept. And what a win this move will be for the wives of adult students! They will be able to say, "Now, Frank, Fred, or John," as the case may be, "I want a nice comfortable chair also an oval table for the draw-ing-room. We cannot afford to buy them, and, even if we could, a little exercise won't do you any harm. You just set to and make them for me before you go to that horrid old meeting to-night." The "master" of the house, and "lord of creation', will not be able to plead ignorance as he has clone hitherto, so he will have to make a virtue of necessity and build the goods. And thereafter he can call on all and sundry to admire his handiwork, even if his first attempts are of the Handy Andy description. And so all things work for the common good reve-n husbands and school committees. The 1 ball opens to-night. LET THEM MARRY. The late Right Hon. R. J. -Seddon and every Cabinet Minister for two decades have preached to the Young !\Vw Zealander that it was their duty to marry. There is one Government Department, however, that does not believe in the wisdom of such a course, and that is the Education Department.

When a young lady goes through the Training College to become a teacher, a guarantor signs a bond to forfeit £l5O if she marries before a period of three years. This is very hard on the young # lady if in the meantime she manages to ensnare in Cupid's toils some desirable young man. It was in sympathy with such young"'ladies that Mr. A. L. Hull moved the following remit at tile last meeting of the Franklin SubProvincial District New Zealand Farmers' Union:—

"That we protest against the rules of the Education Department, which nsks lady teachers to sign the "bond that they will not marry for three years after leaving the Training College."

Mr. Hull thought that this was an iniquitous rule, and one that, interfered with personal liberty. New wanted its young people to marry. We & ant all our young girls to find husbands and homos of their own, and we should block and condemn any such rule. Mr. Hull's efforts were ail in vain, however, the other delegates present did not agree with him, and the remit was lost.