Smokers ‘flogged’ in front of school

 

Two 16-year-old schoolboys who were spotted by a prefect in the street smoking cigarettes were later called up by their headmaster in front of the senior pupils in the school for a ‘flogging’.

One boy refused but was held down over a table by two schoolmasters and, as a court later heard, was beaten ‘in no gentle manner.’

The magistrate remarked it would have been far better if the boy ‘had taken his punishment like a man.’

The case made news across the world. Here are two versions of the story.

As published in the Waikato Times (New Zealand), 30 March 1929

As published in the Daily Record (Scotland), 9 January 1929

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