EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT.
A SCHOOLMASTER FINED. ~ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTOX NORTH, this day. Judgment was given to-day by Mr, Stout, S.M., in the case of A. O. Buckler, headmaster of West End School, Palmerston North, charged with assaulting Jack Cornford, a pupil at the school. The magistrate recorded a conviction, holding that the master administered excessive punishment; that medical evidence showed the punishment was beyond the bounds of moderation. He inflicted a tine of £2 and costs £7 11/0. .-
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 6
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