CHARGE AGAINST SCHOOLMASTERS.
VERDICT AGAINST THE PAKENIS. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, January 25. Mr. Fhiranee, S.M., gave an important decision at Koiiukoliu on Thursday last, when Mr. Co.x, headmaster of the Koiiukoliu School, and John McGechio, assistant master, were charged with assaulting several Sixth Standard pupils. 1 he case of Selwyn Maxwell was taken as a test case. It was shown that the boy participated in cheering outside tlie schooling's, just after school hours, with two lioys who had been punished'. The demonstration was in deliance of the headmaster.
The Magistrate's decision was Hint thf law gave the master |,ower to punish a jmpil lor misconduct while on hi; way home from school. The punish nient was not excessive, and the in formations therefore would be dismissed with costs, CI IDs, against the Jiarcils.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 332, 26 January 1909, Page 2
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