APPEAL FAILS
Borstal Term For Youth (N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, June 26. A member of an Auckland motor-cycle gang had his appeal against a sentence of Borstal training dismissed by Mr Justice Hardie Boys in the Hamilton Supreme Court last Friday. The appellant, Phillip George Clapham, aged 17, labourer, was sentenced earlier this month by Mr Stewart Hardy, S.M., on a charge of being unlawfully on premises at Kiokio on June 6. His Honour described Clapham's actions as those of “a vagrant sleeping out in gypsy fashion.”
“I thought we had got rid of swaggers 30 years ago,” he said. “You have had four convictions in the last 15 months, including one of assault,” his Honour said. “I have given long and anxious thought to your probation report and I am inclined to think you were sentenced to Borstal training to give you a chance to rehabilitate yourself. “Borstal training is designed to benefit youthful offenders, not to punish them.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 15
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160APPEAL FAILS Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 15
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