SEQUEL TO PILLOW-FIGHT.
CANING OF SCHOOLBOY. ASSAULT CHARGE FAILS. A pillow-fight among the boss at Lansdowne College. Hove, was interrupted by the arrival of the master. .Mi-. Albert Bennan, with a cane. One o[ tlie pillow-fighters, a boy named Mark Levy. received a caning, and afterwards di-ap pcarcd from the school. The master was prosecuted for assaulting the boy. Lew. it was said, went to the school last May. Ho was highly strung and nervous, and a medical specialist had declared that he was noi to receive corporal punishment. After the thrashing the master wrote to the boy'-, father expressing sorrow and shame for what had hapnened. and asking for forgiveness. The letter stated that, lie did not mran (o punish the boy as he \v.u\ .lour. but. the boys exasnerated him every nigh'. Ifc added in bis letter: "I have abolished corporal punishment in inv establishment for ever, and 1 am heartily sorry that I let my tenincr get the.'better of mo." Mr. Borman ssid the boy wh..-, a perfect nuisance and insulted him in front of the other bovs and incited the bovs to rebellion.
The magistrate? derided thai Ihe punishment was not excessive, and dis missed the ease.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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