CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS
Discussing the question of corporal punishment in schools, “Children’s Justice,” who describes himself as a qualified teacher (but not practising), writes from Christchurch: I have yet to learn that a. teacher in New Zealand is allowed to use a cane. . . The regulations state a strap may be used on the hand, and only by headmasters —not assistants. . . The big stick is not the hall-mark of the successful school leader. In the latest books from England its estimate of true necessity is 1 in 350 pupils, but what of New Zealand?
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 73, 19 December 1929, Page 13
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94CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 73, 19 December 1929, Page 13
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