NOT EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12221, 24 April 1914, Page 1

NOT EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT.

(Per Pt?f.s3 Association.) April 22. A case of r.Mic'i interest to school teachers was ccju-ni.-Vd at the Magistrate's Court to-day. when F. C. Flem T ing. fir-t assistai.c at the Wanganui' "East Sciicol. was'e]ringed with assaulting a ten-year-ild hoy named ?vl'Williams. It vi■?■■ nlleged that owing to M'WilhV.uio' inability to do some sums which had h..f!i t night whilst ho was in-the hospital undergoing an operation he was thrown on. the floor hy Jennings and .severely thrashed, braises being ai> paren-D rur'«o;no time. The defence was th:Vt tne punishment was for insolence And insubordination, '.itid was not excessive. The teacher had put. the l;ov .ever 'his knee and .administered six strokes 'with' a strap. ; when the hoy, wire was resisting, wriggled on to the floor, where he "received three- more strokes. The ruagistrate. in dismissing the information, held that the punishment v.-ps merited, and was not excessive.