POLICE AND SCHOOL PUPILS.
* COMPLAINT TO BOARD. v A letter was received at the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board yesterday from the Haleombe School Committee, protesting against children being interviewed by the police at the school in the absence of teachers and without warrant, and obtaining statements, sometimes under pressure, from the children. “We believe that in the interests of all this practice should be stopped,” the letter concluded. The chairman, Mr E. F. Hemingway, said the letter referred to a boy lit the school who was alleged to have broken several telephone insulators. After a short discussion the .complaint was referred to the inspector of police at Palmerston North for his explanation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 6
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115POLICE AND SCHOOL PUPILS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 6
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