MARIST BROTHERS AND WAR

New Zealand Tablet, 9 August 1917, Page 28

MARIST BROTHERS AND WAR

A FURTHER REFERENCE. When the adjourned case. of a Marist Brother teacher, John Francis Welch, was called on before the Third Wellington Military Service Board, Mr. A. O'L. Considine said thajt in the future these cases, he thought, should be dealt with from an educational standpoint. Teachers from the State schools were being called up, he added, and were not being appealed for because their places could be filled by men on account of the salary given, but the salary in the case of the other teachers (the Marist Brothers), what was it? '

Captain Baldwin : The magnificent sum of £6O per annum, sir: that, I understand, is all that they can afford.

The Chairman (Mr. H. J. Beswick) : So far as I am personally concerned, I am going to treat these cases purely from an educational point of view. Mr. Considine: So will I.

Mr. H. F. O’Leary (appearing for the appellant) : Taking into account, sir, I hope, the difficulty of replacing them. The Chairman: The cases will bo dealt with from an educational point of view : each on its merits.