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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 163, 5 July 1875, Page 4

A singular coincidence occurred » during the late polling at Blenheim. |Jo. 196 on the Electoral Roll is Mr G-. H., wh6 was the 190 th person who tendered his vote on Monday, at the Blenheim polling booth. There has been a good deal of discussion in "Wellington lately on the subject of flogging in schools. AMr Pilkington, a schoolmaster, "was fined by _4 the Police Court for undue severity in tbe use of the cane, and thereupon ensued a newspaper correspondence, the most Sensible item in which was, in our opinion, the letter of a Mr Gammell, also a sahfltalma-ter, in which he points out the' _fe(__6Bity of refraining from inflictine: coeporal punishment in anger. The teacher should never use the cane until liia anger has had time to cool ; andjjf this rule were duly observed, he "wcwic - nev^ir find himself in such a humiliating position a3 that of Mr Pilkington. . — = — , ,