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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 401, 11 September 1889, Page 8

GRCWIXGOLD..

Ip it parting: with the roundness Of th<> moulded cheek? Is it losing from the' dimples Half the flushing joys they speak? Is it fading of the llistre ' From the Wavy. golden hair? Iv it finding <>n the forehead Graven line« of thought and care ? Is it drooping— as the lose leaves Drop their'sweethess, over-blown — Household names that once were dearer, Moie familial than om own? Is it mee'tifiij on the pnthway Faces stranire and elmces cold While the soul with nionir and shiver Whispers sadly, " Growing old ?" • On the grndual sloping pathway, As the passing \vais decline, G^e'tnip a jrolden love light falling Far from upper heiirhts divine ; And the shadows from that brightness Wrap them softly in their fold, Who unto celestial w Intends Walk, by way of " Growing old."

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN KCHOOLS.

Mn G- W, Wilh.uii-on, hend-nwfcter of the Waipnwa School (tin* third in size in Hnwke's Bay), in :» report to his Commii tee use- .-onioveiy plain language about tin* n-si» of the cane. ' lh' says :—": — " I have in. i c can'fnl uiquiiy into the complaint made by Mr Whvinan {regarding the excessive punishmont of his boy by Mr Bu«t, tin* second master), in accordance with the Comniitti'e's request, and find ihat the punishment was merited. The l>oy is nearly fomteen years of age, and it. would be a hard matter topunisha boy «<f tillage spverely enough without leaving a mark on his hands. There must of nucescily be a wale wherever a blow is struck. I myself do not ever remember evi-r being pnnished at school in that way without hearing the mark of it for two or three days. The discipline of th"* school must be kept up, and boys of that «ir»'. if they tiMusgiess, must be punished in •sin-h a wny us to make them rnmenilvr n. oi.u'rwi.>»' it only creates a laugh nn»oii}."»t them. The fact is there too much -molly oodilliny' of boys goinsr on, to i he ili-uin.ont of all nviuly feelinir. In niy lime if a boy went home cnmpln'ning :il«.m buing punished he woul-l not only h. v»> been anmercilnlly chaffed by the oilier lm\s, but would have received iuiciiher thrashing at the hamls of his Imi her Inr not being man piionuh to take a bi'rg wht'n he deserved it. In the rolnniei it is ilifferent, antl hence the oimrj of lnrnkinism from onp ond of the I'fiiiitiy to the other ; ar<l I am afraid it will soon come to this, that teachers will not be al le to even look at a boy without their beine threatened with r report t.«> the School Committee. It is no voniler, when such a state of things exists that on>' finds bey? when otdeml out for punishment pntiing on their caps and running out n f pc'uiol. as h»ppenei) to- Ihv when n boy was cail^i oat by Mr Hurt. When 1 at-quainted his sist<-rwith it, in onlcr that the lad might be sent bark to school when returned home, I was coolly told " 01-, father tol«l him to <)o «so." Ac<-oi*'lius? ro the regulation", corporal juinisluneiit is to be administered \iy pertifirated teacher", and I should wish it known by parents that, in the preservation of ordei and discipline of the school, for whi< h J nm responsible to the I.iSpector and th" Bosird, at the r\*U oF 10-ing my position if I fail, I shall never sliiik my duty in thU respect, and phonl I ik boy fail in nspect or ob^dien-e he will nlways gN, if he deserves it, a sound good hiding. P peaking from .i length aned experience »xtendingover thirty years, I can conscientiously assert that, there is corporal punishment administered in this school than in nny pfhool I know of, and I am nfrnid ifs mfreqnennj is the cau«e of fo mncli hnblnib being made about it when it does occur. If Mr Whyman still feels aggrieved he has his reme-ly in a court of law. --Nelson Weekly News. ,

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