CADETS’ CAMP’

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9079, 21 February 1908, Page 5

CADETS’ CAMP’

CONDEMNED BY CLERGY AMD TEACHERS. Per Press Association. | Auckland, February 91. The Managing Committee of Auckland Education Institute met to consider a circular from the Education Board calling upon teachers to assist in the proposed cadet encampment, and making the attendance of at least one teacher from each school compulsory. Holding the opinion that teachers’ time outside school hours was not at the disposal of the Board, the committee decided to write to the Board asking that body to reconsider its position and withdraw its circular. A deputation of clergymen waited on the committee askijg for the assistance of the Institute in making an emphatic protest against the proposed encampment. The deputation pointed out the moral danger of taking a great number of young boys into camp, and considered that the withdrawal of boys from home influences and the continuation of the camp over Sunday was most undesirable. The committee explained to the deputation that Auckland teachers had already condemned the holding of camps for several reasons, and had informed the Board of their objections. Teachers were in sympathy with the clergy in this matter, ami hoped the Board would see fit to reconsider the’position.