The toy was a simple design — just a wooden paddle with a string attached to a rubber ball.

These he puts in with the flick of a wooden paddle, a skill that takes six months to master, but recommends an aluminium paddle for novices.

He can barely meet demand as he slides in the long, pale dough on his big wooden paddle to an audience of keenly waiting customers.

In 1982, a nine-year-old student was hit with a wooden paddle that was cracked.

Each company set to work to build a wooden paddle steamer in its own port.