Further, it can be shown that serious offences, such as truancy, were concentrated into only a few repeat offenders. In these cases, the canings provided a short-term deterrent, but not a permanent one. I would note from unrelated anecdotal observations, that 6 well-planted strokes would leave the offender’s seat bruised for up to two weeks. It is coincidental to note that in the serial-offender cases, the minimum time span between repeated offences roughly reflected the anticipated time required for their bottom to have healed from the previous caning. The only one exception to this was a boy (14) receiving 6 for truancy on 18 Nov 1954 and then another 6 for truancy only for days later, 22 Nov.