A BOY WHIPPED.
CHARGE OF UNDUE SEVERITY.
INQUIRY EXONERATES POLICE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the House to-day the Minister of Justice read the official report on on inquiry into a complaint that a boy at Westport had been whipped with undue severity by a police constable. A medical man who examined the boy declared the punishment was not more severe than that often inflicted :by teachers and The report concluded that apparently the father of the boy had been agerieved because his son had received more strokes of the birch than others associated with him in the offence which brought about the punishment. It declared the report published by the Grey River Argus on the subject was grossly exaggerated-
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1922, Page 4
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122A BOY WHIPPED. Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1922, Page 4
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