Memories: fagging and caning by prefects

 

The fact that prefects in elite so-called ‘public’ schools were allowed to beat younger boys is well known. This was a tradition that started in England and quickly spread throughout the British Empire.

It was pretty much taken for granted, but the practice still had its critics, not least among schoolboys themselves, as this memory from New Zealand in about 1915 reveals.

As published in the Star (Christchurch, New Zealand), 15 May 1930.

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