ATTACK ON TEACHER
WOMAN SENT TO GAOL (P.A.) HAWEUtA, March 1. " If this sort of behaviour is tolerated there will not be a school teacher in the whole of the Dominion who will be safe from attack from a certain class of people," declared Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when he sentenced Rutua Boylaud to 14 days' imprisonment on each of two charges of assaulting Mary Jean Jarvis at Otakeho on December 15, and of using indecent language. The sentences are to be concurrent. The police said that Miss Jarvis was approached at the Otakeho Post Office by Boylaud and accused of ill-treat-ment of her child. Boyland caught ,hokl of Miss Jarvis by the hair and struck her on the head with her hand She also used bad language. Mis« Jarvis denied the allegation of illtreatment, and told Boyland that ii she had any complaint she should sec the head master. " This was a very gross assault on a schoolmistress out of school hour* and in a public place, and, in addition, the accused used very filthy language," the Magistrate said. " Not only have I to consider the public, but the whole of the education fivstem of this country."
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Evening Star, Issue 25114, 2 March 1944, Page 3
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204ATTACK ON TEACHER Evening Star, Issue 25114, 2 March 1944, Page 3
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