Jeremy Wells

It's kind of like... Like, you can... Like, you can do it now.

It...

It doesn't hurt that much.

Right.

Is it kind of like when your mate gets a little bit too fizzed up for a high five and it hurts a little bit too much?

I never got the strap, but you had to be pretty naughty to get the strap at my school.

What kinds of things would constitute a strap?

Looking up the teacher's dress.

Swearing?

And you didn't do that?

No, I never looked up a teacher's dress.

I never swore.

Did you ever get strapped?

No, but some people in my year did, I think, in the very late 80s.

And it was the principal of Cambridge Primary at the time.

And he, from reports, he used to take his belt off and use the belt on the back of the legs, where he would strap.

With the buckle?

Yeah.

ah the buckle end or the other end i don't remember and now i remember it being for things like because we had a playground and then there was like a bamboo bush and you could go through the bamboo bush and then down to the waikato river that runs through cambridge but you were not allowed to do that no because people could drown i mean that that does make sense and but the the pulling off you're pulling it your belt and giving it away that's that's quite full yeah

Then caning was more your secondary school thing.