CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
• f Special to thb " Stab."J WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. The Times this morning Bays;—-" We sympathise with the Hon W. Montgomery's resolution which the North 1 : Canterbury Board of Education carried I a few days ago. It substitutes " tawse " I for cane and stick ; it prevents pupils j from being struck on the head asd neck; and it exempts girla of , over twelve years of age from corporal I punishment. Bo far, 00 good ; but how far its provision for uniformity suggests the prevalence up to the present of a promis- ; ouous sort of punishment, without system, j without compunction, and without regulation, The order not to strike children on the
'bead ,r ™*™*«^ZmT , ? n sixteen, and whipped if under; I b»*»J »JJ or woman can be touched by aw ' W^ r Pariiament to take up _Hrn matter, posh th. Edooation Board, aside and P"*«s a decent la», wbioi 'W " lU hh e t0 Be
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4861, 29 January 1894, Page 3
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