In 1963 Scotch caned a fifth former (Year 11) for smoking away from the school and not in school clothes. Most caning in the early 1960s was for smoking for which four strokes was the usual penalty. This was heavier than Nicholson’s caning back in 1936. The aim was both to punish and to change behaviour. A recidivist smoker was condemned to six strokes and “Told by School Capt. Some pertinent factors about School life & we hope was brought around to our way of thinking.’
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