A resolution urging the desirability of extending the powers of magistrates to enable tnem to order boys of 16 to be birched was passed at a meeting of Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions. Colonel Noel said a boy did not care twopence for half a dozen strokes from the birch-rod. The most effectual way to prevent juvenile crime was to do as they did in China—birch the father.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16143, 22 February 1918, Page 9
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66Untitled Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16143, 22 February 1918, Page 9
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