"NOTHING SINISTER"
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Mother and Son Charged With Harbouring Girl From Home COURT TAKES LENENT VIEW
(By Telegraph-
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "There was nothing sinister in this case. These people erred ihrough kindnesa of heart," said counsel, Mr. H. H. Hanna, in the Magistrate's Court this morning when a mother and son, Gladys Orchard and Norman Frederick Orchard, wero charged with knowingly harbouring a girl who had escaped from the Burwood Girls' Home. The accused were convicted and ordered to pay costs. Inspector McLean said that there j had been a number of escapes from the home, and the help of the eommunity . was expected in returning the girla to ! that and other institutions. He added . that the accused did not at first know that the girl was an escapee, but kept her even after they had found out. The Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey, said that the public must be made aware of the fact that there was a severe penalty — a fine of £50 or three months' imprisonment — for that type of offence. "This shows the serious view taken of this sort of thing by the : Legislature," he commented.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 5
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