YOUNGER GENERATION

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1929, Page 5

YOUNGER GENERATION

QUESTION OF RIGHTS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 8. British Magistrates are being called on to determine the rights of the younger generation. In-one ease, Newport Bench decided that a Grammar School headmaster was entitled to cane it. schoolboy of 10 for smoking after hours, though his father permitted it. When Hogged before the school as an example, the hoy showed fight, until lie was caught l>v two assistant masters. put across a desk and caned, kicking and hollowing wildly. The Magistrate awarded tho headmaster damages, considering he was improperly summoned. In the second case, a London Magistrate decided it was reasonable that a lather shoußl deprive a daughter aged 20, of a lafeh-key, because she was not homo by 10 o’clock, and wanted to go to dances. Tho Association of Women Clerks officially expresses the opinion that the father’s viewpoint was preposterous, a girl of twenty being big enough to look after herself. ‘‘Other critics point out that within a year the girl will have a vote, as good as her father’s.