ALIEN TEACHERS’ BILL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 23, 25 September 1915, Page 2

ALIEN TEACHERS’ BILL.

AND OK PROKtSbOR VON ZLDLJTZ. i'E«. Pukss -Association. Wellington, September :H.A deputation, headed by -Mr a. A. Hiinclmarsh, Hnn. 1 Hislop, waited on the Prune - k ..’nivtor to-day in conneetion with the Alien Teachers’ Bill, it was urged n y the speakers that the fact ■ -my had amongst them those win. had made their dearest sacnlin's u, bcipmg check a ruthless foe made them a 1 the [more eager that the Dommmn should keep its record clear Iron, the charges of cruel conduct to anyone "no wa* s, pea cel Hi and trustworthy resident. .The cash of Professor von ZtdhU: was cTtcd, and it was contended unit people feared a stain would fall upon Now iZealand if what was proposal M M | done was . considered Aca bands fair play. The Prime Minister, m replying, Laid ho wanted the doputai-mn to 'know that there was no antagonism ■on the part of the Cabinet or I’arha- ■ incut towards Professor von Zedhtzi, ;buf a mistake had been made. Ho [had been a resident in the country lor I many years, and had not applied lor (naturalisation. lie had acted rightly jin tendering his resignation when the L-ar broke out, and the College Conned 'had made a mistake in not accepting it. It had boon found necessary to discharge from the public seis'co all unnaturalised enemy subjects, and ii it was necessary in those cases was it not right that the same law should apply to those paid indirectly by the State? The Bill would go before Parliament, and members would vote according to their ideas of what was right and wrong.