PUNISHMENT JUSTIFIED.
BOY THRASHED AT SCHOOL
CLAIM AGAINST MASTER FAILS
[cv TELEGRAPH. —PREfcS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON, Friday. Judgment was given to-dav by Mr. T. S. McNeil, S.M., in the claim for £25 brought against John Campbell Hums, headmaster of the Petone West School, by the father of Roy Furniss, a pupil, for alleged assault on his son. The boy was thrashed by Burns for disobedience and resisting punishment.
The magistrate, in dismissing the claim, said he considered • the defendant did not administer the punishment from anger or malice, but from the necessity of chastising a rebellious pupil, and that the punishment was justified and not excessive.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 14
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