BIRCH ORDERED
I IMPUDENT ACT BY TWO BOYS. One of two Wellington lads who turned a hoso on an Ellice Street lady lias been ordered a birching for his conduct. One boy is 13 and the othef 10. Evii'dene© given at tho Juvenile Court yesterday disclosed that the pair went into an , orchard, and on finding tho lady there picking fruit they did not run'. . Instead they, audaciously turned the hose on her, tho older hoy operating the'tap and tho younger sitting on a fence di-' recting the hose. Tho magistrate inquired of their parents what had been done to them. The father of the younger lad said that he had thrashed his son. and tho father of the other that ho had given his boy a talking to. The taa»istfato said that tho older boy deserved a thrashing, and would got ons. Ho orI dored him five strokes of the birch.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 8
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152BIRCH ORDERED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 8
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