MINISTER’S REBUKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 1

MINISTER’S REBUKE

{ MR. ATMORE EXPLAINS QUESTION IN HOUSE (THE SUN’S Parliament ary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Friday. The reason for the public rebuke of a civil servant, Mr. E. Douglas Tayler, supervisor of musical education, was given in the House of ? Representatives today by the Hon. 3 H. Atmore, Minister of Education, when questioned on the subject by Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Cent tral) - Mr. Fraser asked had the Minister seen the protest by the Public Service Association against the public rekuke? Would the Minister explain to the House and the country the facts of the case? Mr. Atmore said that Mr. Tayler had gone out of his province to inform the j public through the “Education Gazette’’ that the Auckland Blind Institute was not in need of donations, as it was heavily endowed. He urged people to subscribe to similar instii tutions in the United Kingdom. The remarks had been brought i under the Minister’s notice, and he had sent to Mr. Tayler the letter published. Mr. Tayler had received the a letter before he had sailed for Eng's land, but had not replied to it. Publi- ” cation of the letter had been made e after Mr. Tayler had left, d Mr. J. McCombs (Lyttelton): Did y Mr. Tayler write in his official capacity? ‘ Mr. Atmore: Yes. The Minister said that he had had to >r bring the contradiction under the 3 notice of as wide a public as Mr. Tayler’s article had reached. Therefore !S the letter was published.