BOY'S ESCAPADE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1854, 13 September 1913, Page 5

BOY'S ESCAPADE.

"SILLY 'AND DANGEROUS ACT." {By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, September 12. Isolation iri Point CHovalier Hospital ■evidently provod irksome to a European boy of 15, and so, six days before the time of quarantine had expired, ho put to soa in a boat accompanied by two girls whom ho met on tho beach. Tho youth was seen and called back almost at once. Ho did not know tho name of his companions so it has been impossible to isolate them as contacts. Tho boy was brought before Mr. F. V. Fraser, S.M., in the Juvenile Court to-day, charged with leaving without permission a place whero ho was legally detained for isolation purposes. • Dr. Spedding said that tho boy had been an epidemic patient. On the dato of tho opisodo ho was convalescent as ho was mixing with other patients. At tho time, tho boy was an extremely dangerous source of infection. Inmates had been warned that they must not go beyond certain boundaries. , For tho defenco it was suggested that thero was no proper boundary on the shore side of tho hospital. Iho inmates wero allowed to batho in tho sea» so defendant thought that ho might boat. His Worship said that tho offenco was a silly and dangerous one, but was fortunately one which could not bo repeated. Repetition of such an offence in a wilful manner by an adult would meet with the maximum penalty of £50. Defendant, however, on account of his youth, would bo merely ordered to pay tho costs of tho prosecution. _ Several -more summonses for similar offonces havo ■ been issued, but. cannot be served until tho patients in question liavo boon discharged from tho hospital.