BOY OF FIFTEEN
/ ADMITS FIFTY CHARGES. IN MAGISTRATE’S COURT. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 7. A youth of 15 admitted in Court today twenty-three charges of giving false alarms, twenty-five of tampering with letter boxes, three of tampering with slot telephones, and one of theft of a- bicycle. He was committed to the care of the Superintendent of the Child Welfare, with a recommendation that he be sent to Weraroa Training School. The damage caused to fire alarms alone was £216 and repairs to post boxes £lB. The police said the boy’s habit was to rise, from his bed after midnight, unknown to his parents and make the raids. Altogether he took 65 letters, some containing cheques and postal notes, but he had not attempted to cash them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 6
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129BOY OF FIFTEEN Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 6
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