TWO SMALL VANDALS.
SET THE SCHOOL ON FIRE.; " ' ' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Invercargill, April, 11. Two boys, aged nine and eleven years,: appeared before the Juvenile Court .this morning charged that,.on March 21, they ' set fire to .'some paper likely to fire the middle Fchool. '-. -■' ' . Sergeant Simpson stated'that) the'fire had originatod in a cupboard in the infant room. were seen and admitted having entered the school at 10 o'clock that morning. They roamed over , ..the building squirting paint through tubes over the desks and floors, and tney also destroyed'a number of school books, and bent-forward the hands of the clock. After lighting a fire in one:of the CQrners the younger lad opened the.cupboard in which were kept books .and children's sowing materials and lit'a matoh. ' : The contents caught .'fire : and the delinquents, being unable to extinguish the.flanies, closed the . doors. One iof the boysi then rang tho iirebell, anil tha brigade arrived beforo much damage was done. ■: His Worship said that tho Act now: allowed. him to make parents pay for . . . anjf damage dono by their, children.' He would enter, a conviction and order tho boys' fathers,to pay £3 10s. each.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 7
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190TWO SMALL VANDALS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 7
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