A WELLINGTON "FEATHER , GANG.”
SMALL BOYS BEYOND PARENTS’ CONTROL. ARE SENTENCED TO THE BIRCH (Special to Times.)_ "WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. The juvenile “feather gang” was had up for sentence to-day, and tlio lx,vs, nearly all under 10, were mostly accompanied by tlieir parents, but appeared to enjoy their situation. . , The ringleader is a lad ot 10, who has been up before for sleeping out at night. He had a number of 'keys in bis possession. The boys, tlie Magistrate said, had got beyond the contrdl of their parents, who were to blame. He sentenced the offenders to receive a various number of strokes of the birch, the ringleader to receive ten, and be sent to ail industrial ‘school.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 6 December 1907, Page 3
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118A WELLINGTON "FEATHER , GANG.” Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 6 December 1907, Page 3
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