Smacked in the dance hall

Here’s an interesting curiosity, from a 1903 edition of “Free Lance”, a New Zealand publication:

I can see scene potential both in recreating the original spanking (the daughter going to the dance hall without permission, perhaps, with a boy her father had banned her from seeing?) and in events after the court hearing (“I hope that when you get her home you’ll teach her a very sound lesson about wasting court time? “Of course, your Worship!”).