THE STAGPOOLE CASE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 253, 25 April 1912, Page 5

THE STAGPOOLE CASE

EDUCATION BOARD'S RESOLUTION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. Echoes of the Stagpoole case were heard at the Education Board's meeting this evening. It was resolved that, in reply to a resolution of the New Zealand Institute, the board points out (1) that while the resolution purports to be a reply to the board's resolution of March 25th, it ignores that portion of it which states that Mr. Parkinson informed Inspectors Braii, Strong, Milne, and Stewart that information given by them would he confidential, and that that pledge was broken; (2) that tho executive's resolution is contrary to fact when it states (a) that the correspondence sent to Mr. Parkinson was not under seal of confidence, as the executive's representative produced in the teacher's Appeal Court a covering letter from Mr. Pirani expressly stating to the contrary; (b) that the testitute was told in the said court that inspectors' official reports were valueless, and of no account (no such statement having been made).; (c) that no breach of the regulations by the chairman or any member of the board was either proved or admitted, as the only regulation on the subject refers to correspondence with the board and not with individual members of the board, and that Parkinson was given every opportunity to explain his breach of confidence in the witness box, but fenced with questions, mid evidently recognised that Ins a.-(i 0! K did not come in the ordinary code nf those of a man occupying a responsible position.