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Grey River Argus, 12 April 1911, Page 7

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FIREARMS TO CHILDREN. (To the Editor.) Sir,--ln. reading your opposite number last night I see where a lad was punished for a theft! of money. (Uod help his parents.) I have notmng to say about that, 'but who served a boy twelve years and seven months with a shooting iron, otherwise a revolver and cartridges?. Now, sir, I'uUi not going- to make~t\\cuses for the boy. He is only a boy, and we were all 'boys once. (No doubt that poor lad had in his mind to do something, with the little toy, or he would not have bought it. Poor lad! I believe that ; a boy under sixteen years of age is not allowed to carry, firearms. Why do they serve a 'boy with a revolver who is 1 only a baby. I hope some abler pen than mine will ta"ke the matter up as a caution against storekeepers serving . children ■with firearms, las it might, lead to someone' being disabled for .life Thanking you for the space taken up in your paper, — 1. -am etc, . A FATHER

In New Zealand some members of the <Lalbour. Party Have actually worked themselves into a ibelief that they are mere beggrars '. on the door-step * of af home which should be' theirs. Under the Liberal^La-bour Administration, Labour (has caught a fair share— the employers says more than a fair share— of the, favours.—Wellington "PoSt.". '.""■'.