CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
TO THB EDITOE.
Sir, —Your paper to-day states that both North Canterbury and Wellington Education Boards have been sitting in solemn conclave over the subject of flogging boys and girls, and the maximum and minimum length, breadth and thickness of the “instrument ” to be used. What does it all mean ? Are the pedagogues of the present day more brutally inclined than those of our youth, or are the boys and girls more delicate. If there are any old St Andrew’s (Scotland) schoolboys here, they will remember with amusement how the Smeatons and the Morrisons of forty years ago used to lay it on, and the Brobdingnagian dimensions of their “instruments,” and yet not a few of us live to tell the tale, and laugh at your poor fragile colonial tenderlings. Methinks if there were a good deal more " larruping ” there would be a good deal fewer larrikins in the colonies.—l am, &c., TAWSE.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10310, 31 March 1894, Page 3
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