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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 903, 24 February 1908, Page 4

The teachers of Auckland are resenting the effort of the Education Board to make their attendance at cadet encampments compulsory. The Auckland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute has taken the matter up and has forwarded a respectful letrer of protest at what it terms "a serious infringement of the teachers' liberty." The managing committee submits that a teacher's time outside of school hours is at his own disposal, and that the Board has no right to demand from a teacher any duty during such time. The committee adds in its communication:—"lt is unnecessary in this letter to urge upon the board the objections held by the great majority of teachers to encampments; these, as agreed to by a combined meeting of cadet officers and headmasters, having been already forwarded to you, the institute begs to remind the board that the zealous efforts of the cadet officers in the past under a voluntary system have been responsible for the great success of the movement. If this voluntary effort is replaced by compulsory service this institute has every cause to fear that the work will be done without that enthusiasm so necessary to success."