KAMO SCHOOL ASSAULT CASE.

Northern Advocate, 22 February 1911, Page 4

KAMO SCHOOL ASSAULT CASE.

111.. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In Tuesday's issue of your paper there is an account of a fight which is said to have taken place between several scholars while going home from Kamo school. As the account, as a whole, is incorrect, kindly allow me to supply you with facts. On Friday afternoon last F. Rumbal, aged eleven years, and another boy a year younger, ran to a swing in the school playground. Rumbal gained possession of the swing first. The other boy tried to take it from him, and while doing so struck Rumbal, caus- j ing his nose to bleed. Two younger! boys, friends of Rumbal, went with /lira, to a pump, and while washing the blood from his nose allowed some water to saturate his clothing. The i';*ther of F. Rumbal told me that there was no mark or scratch of any kind to be seen on his son. The doctor who has been attending the sufferer, told his teacher that the boy's illness was not the result of the treatment he had received, for the disease from v.iiich the poor boy is suffering was upon him before the events related above took place.—l am, etc., H. REWARD, Headmaster. (An "Advocate" reporter asked Dr. Good if Mr Reward's statements were correct, and was informed that, while it was possible the immersion accentuated the pneumonia, the boy had the, complaint upon him before the incident.—Ed. N.A.)