MASTER'S BIRCH.
HELPED BUILD EMPIRE. LONDON, October 12. Politicians, bishops, major-generah, and innumerable others havj squirmed in the iron grip of William Hall, who hae just retired from the post of school messenger at Eton. (His duties included holding down boys at the famous birching block, but he refused to reveal their names, it being a point of honour not to discuss the grim scenes at which he assisted in the headmaster's study. Hall, who is 73, is white-haired, though he was formerly fiery red, for which he was nicknamed "Fusee." He fought in the Zulu War. Ho is of the opinion that the thrashings have done the boys the world of good, and helped to build up the British Empire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 7
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121MASTER'S BIRCH. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 7
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