FOOD CONDITIONS AT WERAROA TRAINING FARM.
ALLEGATIONS BY ESCAPEES. The three charges of breaking and entering against the two young escapees from Weraroa Training Farm, Victor Kirner and Andrew Cole, were being heard in the Police Court, at Palmerston North on Thursday, when Mr A. J. Graham, J. P., asked the accused: “What, made you boys run away from the training farm?” “The food is awful (here,” said one of the accused, “there are maggots in the porridge every other morning.” “I should advise your Worship not to take such allegations too seriously,” said Detective-Sergeant Quirke who conducted the case for the police. “They would say anything in justification of their liberty. Boys there, are really very well treated.” “You would say differently if you could see what things are like there,” said the accused who had answered Mr Graham’s question. “I think there is something more in it than what you sa.v,” said Mr Graham, addressing Mr Quirke. Tie questioned the youths further, remarking, “It would seem that an inquiry into the conditions at the Weraroa Farm would he a desirable measure.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2588, 2 June 1923, Page 3
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183FOOD CONDITIONS AT WERAROA TRAINING FARM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2588, 2 June 1923, Page 3
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