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VERDICT FOE MASTER CHASTISED A PUPIL [ Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. Judgment was given to-day by Mr T. 8. McNeil, S.M., in the claim for £25 brought against John Campbell Burns, headmaster of Petotte West School, by the father of Roy Furniss, a pupil, for alleged assault on hig son. The boy was thrashed by Burns for disobedience and resisting punishment. The magistrate, in dismissing the claim, considered the defendant did not administer the punishment from anger or malice but from the necessity of chastising a rebellious pupil and that the punishment wag justified and not excessive.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 288, 4 December 1929, Page 4
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