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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17707, 8 March 1923, Page 3

The "ragging" of new pupils was tlie subject of a short discussion at the monthly meeting of the Southland High Schools' Board. Mr. J. Carswell said there was a certain amount of "ragging" that the Board should winlc at, but" a case had come under his notice the otter day in which a boy had shown tight, and as a result,- so he was informed, he had been put through the "ragging" ceremony every day that week. The boy had been ordered to sine in the train. He had refused to do so"and ■was again "ragged." As a result of the affair the- boy had left the'school. The chairman: Of course a boy is well advised to go through it and "be done with it. The secretary said the boy's parents could not understand -why *h© would not go to school, nor why he appeared so worried at tl:e time. The boy would not eat or sleep. Evidcntlv lie had not told his parents about "the "ragging." The boy was a clever boy and above the average. The secretary, undertook to go into the matter.