School Teacher Fined For Assault On Pupil
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GREYMOUTH, This Day.
Stated by the police to have misdirected a blow aimed to chastise a boy, Clifford Charles Bowater, school teacher at Kokairi School, was fined £2 in the Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of assaulting James William Rooney, a 9-year-old pupil. ■ ' Bcvyater, who admitted he struck the pupil on the face, resulting in a black eye and bleeding nose, said he was under mental stress at the time.
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Northern Advocate, 4 December 1939, Page 4
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