Retired schoolmaster makes canes for parents

 

Whack! Sir

is now a

cane-maker

A RETIRED schoolmaster has started making canes so that parents can give erring sons six of the best.

“I have advertised them in the local papers and have sold 16 since January,” 63-year-old Mr Conway Pope, who taught in a private school, said at his home in Stratton, Dorset, yesterday [9 March 1974].

He started selling the canes at 10p each after conducting his own survey on corporal punishment among 240 families in the district.

“I found that most parents did not know where to get schoolmasters’ canes so I decided to do something about it,” he said.

“A local merchant supplies me with the material which I make up into round-handled canes.

“I don’t make a profit but I get the satisfaction that I am helping to restore discipline in the home.

“In my time, I’ve whacked a fair number of boys and I’ve never found any resentment.”

As published in The People (UK) 10 March 1974.

Picture credit: Alamy

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