UNIQUE PUNISHMENT.
A SCHOOLBOY'S DAMAGED TROUSERS. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association.! Auckland, December 11. A unique reprimand administered by a country-school teacher was reported to tlio Education Board to-day, and a pair of damaged trousers was sent along in corroboration of the complaint. One of the boys attending the school spilt some ink on the floor and desks during a Bible-Class meeting, and had.been troublesome in other -ways. To more strongly emphasise on the youngster's mind the grievous sin of damaging the board's property, the teacher took upon himself the responsibility of damaging the boy's clothes by cutting two large pieces out of his trousers with a knife. Neither the parents nor the committee would have objected to some other form of punishment, and the father would have per-' niitted the matter to drop had the teacher agreed to defray the cost of a new pair of garments. This, however, he refused to do. Members of the board expressed astonishment at the nature of the rotaliativc punishment, and decided to ask the teacher to make an immediate explanation and show ciause why he .should not be suspended.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 4
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185UNIQUE PUNISHMENT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 4
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