CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AT THE COLLEGE.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —Apropos of the" correspondence published in to-day's Times in connection with the flogging administered to two little children at thb Wellington College, permit me to tell an anecdote of a somewhat similar case and its results, which may perhaps give a salutary hint to one of the persons concerned. When' I .was a' small boy at one of England's largest public schools, a little fellow who was my playmate,was unjustly, and, as we boys considered, cruelly flogged. No notice was taken of the affair until a week had elapsed, when one afternoon, as the boys were issuing from hall, a stranger was seen entering the lodge gates in company with the porter. This stranger turned out to be the father of the little boy who had been unjustly flogged, a man whose name was loved throughout the land, and who in the Indian mutiny showed his appreciation of both discipline and justice. Introducinghimself as Colonel , he walked up to the person who had illused his son,- and-administered such- a thrashing as it has never been my lot, to witness on any-other; occasion, amid the plaudits of the boys, _ and when it come to his knowledge, the satisfaction of the head master, who before he was promoted to lawn sleeves could himself flosj pretty smartly, but with justice and humanity. ■ln conclusion, I may mention that I had intended sending my son at an early age to the Wellington College, and witnessed its establishment with much satisfaction ; but I have come to the conclusion that it would be quite as much to his advantage to send him to Thorndon Board School, or one of the private schools:in the town, for reasons which are obvious to anyone who has watched the career of the College, and my views are shared by many of my friends. Flogging boys is.very well, and necessary under certain circumstances and under proper control; but had it been my child of ten years of age who had been so cruelly ; beaten, I should" have taken the strongest measures to mark my opinion of the act and contempt for the perpetrator.—l am, &c, An Old Schoolboy. Wellington, 13th February.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4961, 15 February 1877, Page 2
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374CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AT THE COLLEGE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4961, 15 February 1877, Page 2
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