THRASHED AT SCHOOL.
A TEACHER UPHELD.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night,
A case of much interest to school teachers wag concluded at the S.M. Court to-day. P. C. Jennings, first assistant at the Wanganui East school, was charged with assaulting a ten-year-old hoy named McWilliams. It was alleged that owing to McWilliams' inability to do' sums which had been taught while lie was in the hospital undergoing an operation, ho was thrown on the floor by Jennings and severely thrashed, the bruises being apparent for some time. The defence was that the punishment was • for "insolence and insubordination, and was not excessive. The teacher had put the boy over his knees and administered six strokes with a strap, when the hoy, who was resisting, .wriggled on to the floor, where he received three more strokes.
The Magistrate, in dismissing the information, held that the punishment was merited and not cxeessive.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 23 April 1914, Page 5
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151THRASHED AT SCHOOL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 23 April 1914, Page 5
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