Waipukurau witnessed its first sitdown "strike” when a small boy steadfastly refused all efforts to make him go to school by sitting down in the middle of the street in the town area. First his brother tried to drag him off by tying a belt around him. but when this proved unavailing, the boy's mother came along and administered a good strapping, which had the desired effect. On Wednesday, when the same boy first adopted this form of passive resistance, a policeman appeared on the scene. The boy quickly went off to school.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 6
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