Flogging the nation's children

THIS NEWSPAPER as well as the Herald carried headlines this week about an allegedly injurious flogging of a child in a prominent high school. Acting promptly, the school has reportedly banned caning by any teacher. - Geof Brown

Are we prepared to pay the price?

THE BREAKDOWN of law and order in a country is like the flu germ. It respects no person and does not discriminate in the selection of its victims. All are likely to be affected and there is precious little that can prevent it ... - Marjorie Stair

A perverted system

THE IMAGES are straight from hell: the starved and agonised bodies, the children with death in their eyes. The raw statistics are no better:-Ian McDonald