TEACHER STRIKES PUPIL
FINE OF £2 IMPOSED A MISDIRECTED BLOW. [ Per Press Association.] GREYMOUTH, Dec. 4. Stated by the police to have misdirected a blow aimed to chastise a boy, Clifford Charles Bowater, sole teacher at Kokiri School, was fined £2 in the Magistrate's Court this morning on a charge of assaulting James William Rooney, a nine-year-old pupil. Defendant, who admitted that he struck the pupil on the face, resulting in a black eye and a bleeding nose, stated that he was under mental stress at the time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 8
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