YOUTHS' OFFENCES
CONVERTED MOTOR-CARS
"LAW MUST BE OBEYED"
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH,'This Day. "So much of this is going on that urgent steps must be taken to stop it. The law provides for a "heavy-punish' ment, and ii is' up to the Court's to sco that the law is obeyed," sfated Mr. E. D. Moslcy, S.M.-, in' the Children's Court today, when four secondary school boys of from fifteen to seventeen years of ago were jointly charged with converting two motor-ears to (heir own use. ■ •■■- ■■"; ''; One boy was discharged'^as having been an unwitting party to the offence, another was ■ placed under, the . supervision of the Child Welfare for a year, and the remaining two. for two years. . s • •'.-.'■ ' .- ■■. ' The Magistrate said that in the case of two of: the boys the control-at their homo was very slack, and: the. parents were partly to blame. - Th<3 _boys had used cars for trips to the seaside, often returning at: 4 and 5 a.m.* despite tho fact that they were preparing-for tha matriculation examination. •: ■■•-
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 11
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171YOUTHS' OFFENCES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 11
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