OVERSEA MAILS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2482, 8 June 1915, Page 6

OVERSEA MAILS

(Rec. June 7, 11.30 p.m.) London, June 7. The Posf master-General announces that the overland transmission of Australian and New Zeaalnd mails will be resumed on June 11. The folly of the practice of entrusting children with boxes to collect for the Patriotic Fund was exemplified at a sitting of the Juvenile Court in Dunedin on Friday, when a boy of 15} years was charged with having stolen a bicycle, valued at £5, the property of Edward Gibson, and the sum of £2 3s. 6d., the property of Sidney M'Cabe. Sub-liispector Broberg* said that the lad, who was physically and mentally dc-licient, had been sent to the Burnham Industrial School, and later licensed out to his own parents. For a few weeks (says the "Otago Daily Times") he was in the employ of a butcher in South Dunedin, ami hp obtained the bicycle from a dealer after his dismissal, by representing "that it was for his former employer, lie disappeared from home, and was next heard of at a boardinghouse in Princes Street, whore ho slept for a night in a room with a man named M'Cabe, and stole the money from a drawer. He was seen by friends of his parents in Dunedin, and taken home, but disappeared again, after stating that ho had left the bicycle in a gorse hedge in the country. He was traced to Oamaru by means of a paragraph in the "Otago Daily Times," and ; on being brought home again, stated that on .May 22 he was given a box to ■ collect money for the Dunedin Soldiers' 1 Fund, and stole from it TCs. of the money he collected. On the following Saturday ho was again given a box', from which ho stole £2. When lie was taken into custody 10s. 6d. remained. 1 The lad was convicted and ordered to bi sent, back to Burnham, the Magistrate directing that, the 10s. firl. in his VKir-sptMnii should bo handed back to LLU'Claba. . -t.