THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON JUVENILE CRIME.
Napibe, December 7. The Chief Justice charged the Grand Jury to-day at great length, and said the charges were more nnjaercua than on any previous occasion.- This was duo probably to the increasing population. He referred to the three charges against boys of fifteen years of age, indicating that there was an influence at work calling for legislative interference. As these oases occurred in an extremely well to do district, In fact the moat prosperous in New Zealand, and allow ng for the extremely liberal provision made for education, they probab'y were due to the comparatively high wages earned by boys. He thought provision should be made foe licensing cat boys of tender years convicted of offences In which criminal tendencies were not shown. He thought that neither industrial school nor reformatories bad fu’fi'led their mission. He said a boy served five years in a reformatory and probably cams oot worse than he went in. The Probationers Act could only apply to grown men, end even in their cases It was almost unworkable. Licensing ont of boys should be tinder Government control.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1427, 8 December 1886, Page 2
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188THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON JUVENILE CRIME. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1427, 8 December 1886, Page 2
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