THE STAGPOOLE APPEAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 67, 14 March 1912, Page 5

THE STAGPOOLE APPEAL.

PECULIAR CHARGES AGAINST ORGANISING INSPECTOR. CHIEF INSPECTOR’S THREAT. (Per Press Association.) Palmerston, March 13. The hearing of the appeal by the Teachers’ Institute against the dismissal of Mr. Stagpoolc, teacher at Linton, by the Wanganui Education Board, was resumed to-day before Messrs. Kerr, S.M., R. McNab, and E. H. Broad, M.A. Mr. Moody, chairman of the Linton School Committee, was to a further two hours’-examination by Mr. Pirani, Chairman of the Education Board, ns to resolutions of protest ■against Mr. Stagpoole’s dismissal and enquiry by the committee and^Teactiers’ Institute into'the statements, regarding the actions of the organising inspector, (David Stewart, at Linton School. Mr. Moody said 'that Mr. Stagppqle had told him that Chief inspector Braik had told him to drop the Stewart business of he 'would be dismissed. ........ The Board continued its sittings'tonight, when various children were examined regarding statements that the organising inspector had put a piece of chalk in their months to .make them bpeii them and speak properly; that he had swung one girl behind the blackboard and left her there for an hour; that he had pushed a hoy against the blackboard, pinched a little girl, find hit her pn the head with, a reading book for inattention, and told them all to look at him, because they 1 would never see such a fine-look-ing man as he was. The children were subjected to considerable cross-examin-ation.

This was the fifth day of the case, and Mr. Kerr, SAL, said it would be necessary to finish on Saturday evening or it must he adjourned indefinitely to permit of his magisterial work being undertaken. Mr. Pirani ■stated that the organising inspector, Mr. Stewart, would give evidence later as various statements had made this necessary.