“A HARD CASE.”
George Vincent Ryan Wallace, sixteen and a-half years of age, a Maori half-caste, was also charged that, on Friday, at Shannon, he did steal butter, chocolates, chewing gum, peppermints, and oatmeal, of a total value of £7 17/7, the property of the New Zealand Government.
Senior Sergeant O’Grady said accused had been committed to Weraroa in August of last year, following his eonvietion-on three charges of theft, when he was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Since then he had been licensed out at various places, his conduct being entirely unsatisfactory. The Probation Officer, under whose charge Wallace had been placed, said he had been removed three times from his situation on account of petty thefts and generally unsatisfactory behaviour. It appeared that he did not want to make good. The Magistrate said Wallace had been given every chance. It was a case for an order committing him to a Borstal institution, which would give him a chance to get rid of what was obviously a growing weakness. He would be sent to a Borstal institution for a period of not less than 12 months.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 19 October 1926, Page 2
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191“A HARD CASE.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 19 October 1926, Page 2
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