Carey Grammar School.

Mr Harold Steele, Headmaster: “School ended at 3.45 pm except for those boys undergoing detention, the normal form of punishment for misdemeanours, although H.G. Steele did not hesitate to cane for serious offences. Persistent laziness was an especially heinous schoolboy crime in his judgement and a severe caning the only cure.”

“I remember the building of the tuckshop and a concrete floor under a roof outside, where we used to play French cricket on wet days, and I was successful in putting the ball through the window, for which H.G. Steele duly chastised me in an appropriate manner with the cane he kept behind the bookshelves for such occasions.”