GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST A SCHOOLMASTER.
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, This Day.
A remand for five days was granted, in the Police Court this morning, in a case in which Norman McLeod Martin, aged 33, headmaster of a country schoo 1 , waa charged with having indecently assaulted a youth of 20 on May 20th. Bail was allowed.
The position of the Education Board in the matter was explained by a member 'of the Board, Mr Wauchop, who said that, even if criminal proceedings had not been taken, the accused would 'have been suspended while a committee inquired into the rumours. Martin, however, had resigned.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1930, Page 5
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