TEACHER OR BOARD ?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3456, 7 October 1913, Page 8

TEACHER OR BOARD ?

A MATRIMONIAL problem. PAYING FOR THE HONEYMOON. A case of interest to the teaching profession was dealt with at the 'Wanganui Magistrate’s Court, when Mrs Gibson, of Christchurch- (nee Miss Avis, associate teacher of Utiku school), claimed £9 Ils from the Wanganui Board of Education as salary from last January. It appears that plaintiff was paid her salary from Januarv Ist. 1912, and on December 17th resigned her position (to get married) as from January 31st, 1913, the idea being to get paid for two January holidays in one year. . The Board tried to provide against this practice by stipulating in the conditions of employment that if teachers resign at the end of the year, then the resignation must not extend over the January holidays. Mr Marshall, for the Board, contended that the ease was an attempt to get the Board to pay for the honeymoon, that no services were intended to be rendered in January, that the Board had a perfect right to make such a condition as the one relied on, and even if the Court was inclined to a o- ree to an effort being made to get something for nothing, the plaintiff (who he said, should have been putin, the box to stand cross-examination) was stopp.-d bv the fact that no proof had boon adduced that she had complied with the Act in sending her notice to the Chairman of the Utiku. School Committee. , The Magistrate decided to take time to consider the matter, and reserved his decision. __