CANING TO CONTINUE
U.K. Teachers’ Decision
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 30.
British headmasters voted overwhelmingly yesterday to continue caning in theii schools. Only two of the 500 delegates .of the National Association of Head Teachers, meeting in Harrogate, Yorkshire, voted to abolish corporal punishment. One of the headmasters, Mr C. V. G. Coleman, of Cardiff, said he did not recommend corporal punishment “in the context of the thumbscrew or the rack.
“But we are not living in a Utopia. Cheating, lying, stealing, and pornographic scribbling still distress us and what are the remedies to be when kindness fails?” Another headmaster said he favoured caning because it was “just, quick and clean, With no retribution.”
Youngest Premier.—A 40-year-old Queen’s Counsel was elected Premier of South Australia today, to become the youngest State Premier in the nation. Donald Allan Dunstan,. Attorney-General in the ruling Labour Party since 1965, will succeed Mr Frank Walsh.—Adelaide, May 30.
Train Derailed.—Ten passengers were killed and an undetermined number injured when a train went off the rails some 300 miles south-east of Manila, the Philippine Presidential Press Office announced today.— Manila, May 30.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 15
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