Familiarity with Policemen
Instead of English children being in charge of groups of pupils crossing streets near the schools, as is the custom in New Zealand, there were policemen on duty at the crossings, said Mr G. Macdonald, a Timaru teacher who recently returned from a year in England under the teachers’ exchange system. One outcome of that was the familiarity of the children with the policemen, some of the pupils being very cheeky while waiting to cross. In turn that familiarity was felt to be partly responsible for the increasing delinquency in England. as it banished the old childhood lear of the police.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 9
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