YOUTH GANGS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
PALMERSTON NORTH, October 13. A general warning to parents of youths, or organisations connected with young people, to watch carefully for signs of gang activity was given by Mr Herd, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court here to-day. * He said a complainant in a case last week had quoted a defendant as saying: “I ought to get the gang and come and beat you up.” This was not t.ho first time a hint had been given that a gang existed in the city. He warned that the court would regard with gravity any case which came before it if anything in the nature of a gang was shown to exist or threats were being used by a number of people against one or more. Any such cases would be met with heavy penalties. The case to which he referred was one which had been adjourned last week to allow the Magistrate to consider a legal point.
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Grey River Argus, 14 October 1948, Page 8
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