An inquiry into whether students were being unfairly caned at Telopea Park School turned up no findings of wrongdoing on this day in 1935.
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The investigation came about after statements were made to the Advisory Council of Canberra, alleging children were being punished for going to school without boots.
A report deduced that none of the claims were substantiated, and no charges were sustained against the school's then-headmaster.
A story on the front page of The Canberra Times quoted the report.
"It is found that the punishment inflicted in the school has been neither unduly severe nor contrary to the regulations governing corporal punishment except in the case of one boy where there was an error in judgement in regarding the case as extreme," a quote in the story said.
"In this case, however, the only punishment inflicted was two cuts of the cane administered in the usual manner."
Not only did the report reiterate the school's "most satisfactory" conduct; it found the teacher who was subject to complaints about caning had an "enviable record since entering the service of the department".
