Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1894. THE TAWSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4679, 30 March 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1894. THE TAWSE.

Tub Education Board has again abolished corporal punishment, has put down caning, boxing, pinching, slap-' ping, pushing, shoving and pulling. It did this sort of thing many years ago, but nobody ever took any notice of the edict or conpidered that it bad any practical applioaiion. Perhaps one teacher out of a hundred abstained froai corporal punishment, because that particular instructor of youth disbelieved iu its educational advantages ; but the remaining ninety-nine weuton their way rejoicing, refreshing themselves at brief intervals with recreative and recuperative slaps, pinoheß and punches. The Board, fully aware of this, shut its eyes and closed-its mouth on the subject, and taoitly agreed that its own regulation should be broken into bits some ten thousand times per diem. Would It not have been better if the Board, .before trying a new regulation of xxx strength, have endeavoured to give effect to the milder x regulation, which for so many yeare has been treated with contemptuous contumely. If that body cannot carry out a simple regulation for a single day,. what chance has it of forcing a drastio one. We quite approve of the new regulation and believe that the principal on which it is founded is a sound one, but when we know that for a long series, of years a.somewhat similar but mote moderate regulation has been flagrantly, violated by every .employe of the' Board from the Inspector at the head to the youngest junior teachers at the foot wo can soarcely believe : that the Board is serious. That every school punishment should be recorded in a log book has been a rule from the past dozen yeais but we venture to affirm that not one oastigation in a thousand h/as been so registered and that the Board, the inspectors, the teachers and the committees are. all fully aware of the faot. It'is funny to find Wellington journals congratulating the Board onitsnew regulations as if the mere making of a rule curried wijh it a reform. " Ihe tawse" which corrected some great lights on the Board in their youth and' made them what they how are, is to be the only punishment, and'even from .this instrument girls are exempted. However, it is one thing to take a horse to the water and another thing to m«ko him drink,, and we doubt whether teachers must, will/orcan accept the new regulation.

A correspondent in our last issue took up the question of good meat, and mode a suggoßiion as to slaughterhouses which deaerves attention, We believe {bat ': the general, condition-'.of slaughterhouses in this neighbourhood is satisfactory though we are told that there is one exception 'to ; tbe rule—we havp ejso bjpep,jnforniecl that >,.»,. consider able number -of animal?, wbioh' parry "'unmistakeabje indications of disease are killed in this "diatriot,: We > ; think- on -the whole that some aotion should bo taken j' People' are content to eat old cows and to devour aged ewes for the x good of their" country _whioh .res quipes that all superior meat sjiould be exported to .England, bat the penalty ought to \ stop at thia.VJ If colonists are contented to eat : superaoouated pows audgnasji tb'eirieeth on dowager 1 ewes, they: Bhould have a : guarantee that; their, food -does-not ; suffer from, any ytber drawback than j thaioilpngeyiljf.;;| |:f , ; i