THE POWERS OF A SCHOOL TEACHER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 57

THE POWERS OF A SCHOOL TEACHER.

''ho i(,i'u»ii» lcttei v.-a-s Lead at thr u,onthlj uicptni'; of tiie Committee of Managi-mcM ol tne Ot.l^o IlfU'Citional In-titute with ref'-'ence to the <a-,e o r Mr Ernest Walters head ma ter II ii ' il.kutjia Scl'co', Aut 'eland. .iß.i:ii~t 1 wl-c.ii jiaf-nu-ju \ws giUi. for £5 dama><e3 and >"> I.y^ »o,:o, in :i caie in which £200 wa', 1 lamed foi h.'vuip: thia->heel a l)oy for bathiug ' \.ith 1.1-. &•>! 1 a!.d othei guls aitcr the •■latter h id ■AJU'od t!i' boy that he would punish him. It v.j= losolvrd to hand the letter to the pres-6 foi pubhcatir.n. tUvensboiiri.e, Ith Apn!. 1902. 1 ' Deal Mi .M.icf.oiiald,— f urn gncsed ant? ~*i dZ( .d jt th" dec <-iou at Auckls-l.rl, le^orted in tc-'li\"fc ]).i|3er The teaclier 111 auestion oily il'd his rlutv, and was undeniably within his r^hl- \\'h?n f-hairinan of a School Board 111 <-cot*and I considered it to be my duty to upho'd Ihe influence of the tiachc-rs>. and the father oi the boy Gibb ought to have felt gwteful (or what he- d.fl. If your Teachers' As-o-elation ihnuld ilimk of raiamp a fund in srmll ."■inns to crab!" the hue and e.<pensc3 to be met, fun' otherwise to make their anpieciation ol his faithfulness and courage, I shall £,ucu'y my nnte You ma; do as \ou cl 00-e \ ith ih .- - I am, < U , \V Mn.r.\p Xicolsox, M A . Di ' Ktl n 1 Oit ' Fellow, Tutor, and Exaiiimei L'u \ Klin

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