SCHOOL FEUD KEPT UP
WELLINGTON YOUTHS FIGHT (By Telegraph.—Press Association) *WEL L INGTON, Ftida v “One is expected to drop school feuds after leaving school and not ■light in a public place, whatever the offence may lie (given Hie ’old school tie,”’ said Mr A. M. Gould'ing, ri.M., in fining Frederick Haswell Thomas .Smith, aged 20, £ I for striking Guy Davis Thornton outside a skating rink. According to counsel there was a feud between hoys in the Wellington College and Wellington Technical College, and Smith, having just left school, kept it up. Apparently the Wellington College boys referred to the Technical College hoys as “gutter rats.” The youths mixed up in the affair were known to each other, having been at a primary school together.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 11
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