THE ARMSTRONG CASE.
(By Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, Feb 15. An'examination of the registers at Kohimarama industrial school, so far as they hare been preserved, shows that the lad Armstrong, who told tbe magistrate that be bad only attended school about once a month, attended 2435 times.in 5£ yean. This gives an average attendance of 210 days per year. He is marked absent less than eight times per annum. One of the teachers under whose care he was accounts for his having passed the Ist standard only' by saying that he was an extremely dull Iwy, almost impossible to teach. It may be mentioned. , that the institution was inspected regularly by the Education Board’s officers
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7070, 16 February 1893, Page 1
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113THE ARMSTRONG CASE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 7070, 16 February 1893, Page 1
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