HEAD MASTER CENSURED.
"BUMPED" BOY GETS £243 An action concerning a boy's broken elbow when he was "bumped" by his . schoolfellows ended recently in Mr. Justice Swift awarding damages of £243 in the King's Bench Division against the head master. The lad is Laurence Alex (12), of Wembley Park Drive, who, through his father, claimed damages against the Rev. H. J. Kerridge, head master of a school at the Gables, Park Lane, Wembley, England. Mr. Kerridge said that until this particular "bumping" there had been nothing of the kind for\ about seven years and then only outside the school grounds. Mr. Justice Swift, in giving judgment, said he was quite satisfied that,when a parent placed a schoolmaster in his own place as parent, he did not intend the punishment of his child to be handed over to other boys. "Bumping" the judge continued, was a very dangerous practice. The resul-t of what young Alex went through was to injure his ara*. His spine might just as easily have been hurt. There was no doubt Mr. Kerridge delegated to the boys a duty imposed upon him. It was comforting to know from the medical report that •the lad would soon almost entirely recover.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 6
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202HEAD MASTER CENSURED. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 6
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