CHILDREN’S MANNERS.
To the Editor. Dear Sir,—J was greatly interested in the Dunedin case in which a sailor from 11.M.5. Dunedin was acquitted on a charge of assaulting a child. It is time that responsible people took a hand to check or instruct children who are guilty of cruelty to animals or for that matter any form of inconsiderateness towards the rest of creation. I seriously doubt whether children, even at the better, private or secondary schools are receiving instruction in good manners. I find that schoolchildren will march four and five abreast and crowd adults right off the footpath, if they are silly enough to go off. I would like to think that amid all the talk of what should and what should not be taught in the schools, some place was found for teaching good manners, but I doubt it.—l am, etc., HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 10
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