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YOUNG BURGLARS

Five Committed To Borstal Discipline

"You don’t think how sad it is to see you fine young men standing there charged with crimes of the, gangster type,” said Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, when five youths appeared before him for sentence on a series of charges of breaking and entering and theft from warehouses and countinghouses in Palmerston North, Wellington and. Lower Hutt. Prisoners were John Albert Duncan plumber’s assistant, aged .19 (nine charges) ; Godfrey Whent, seaman ami miner, aged 18 (six charges) ; Norman John Pearce, soldier and labourer, aged 20 (seven charges); Stanley Lawrence Hawkins, farm hand, aged 19 (six charges) ; Patrick Gerald Pointon, labourer, aged 19 (four charges). “New Zealand requires better things of you than this,” continued his Honour. “You can use your energies to better purpose. When you have finished the terms I am bound to impose upon .you, I want you to realize that the community will help you to rehabilitate yourselves as decent citizens.” His Honour committed prisoners to a Borstal institution, Duncan and Pearce for three years and Whent, Poiuton and Hawkins to two years. In the case of Hawkins, his Honour said he would recommend the Prisons Department and the Prisons Board to keep him under mental observation. Mr. W. R. Birks represented the Crown.

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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8

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YOUNG BURGLARS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8

YOUNG BURGLARS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8

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