School Pleads For Ugly Girl
ASSISTANTS POPULAR “A MATRIMONIAL AGENCY” Wanted. —A young woman teacher; ugliness absolutely necessary. No organisation was ever as staggered as the Auckland Education Board this morning when a country school committee (it passes unnamed) appealed to the board to refrain from sending attractive teaching assistants! The plea was wholly serious, as the melancholy tone of the letter from the chairman of the committee revealed. Said the letter: ‘‘Miss , our assistant, has told us she is resigning. We are very sorry. “Would it be a breach of etiquette on the part of the board to ask the next assistant if she is engaged? We are a sort of a matrimonial agency up here. Miss was our fifth assistant teacher in four years. “Do you not possess any plain. O’* even ugly, girls? With the necessary qualifications, of course, or have you a set rule for features?” Tho popularity of the girls was a cause of expenditure, the letter went on. All the five assistants had been popular with the children and there had been “an orgy of farewell entertainments.” After consideration, the board decided to explain the petition to the committee.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 949, 16 April 1930, Page 1
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