Youth Who Could Have Been Saved

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 8

Youth Who Could Have Been Saved

If (From "N.Zj Truth's" Special Auckland Representative). II == . i§ i| "Yes, I might have saved him, if there had been provision || || m the Act," admitted Probation Officer Campbell, when Magis- || If trate F. K. Hunt questioned him regarding- Roy G. Taylor, a ff || youth of seventeen years, who. appeared m the Auckland Police II If Court on sixteen charg-as of breaking 1 and entering- dwelling || If houses. ■ , ■ '. || jj Campbell stated that the boy's mother had approached ft || him complaining that she could not manage her son some time ff if ago, but he could take no action, as there was no provision for II || his interference. ' fi |1 "He could have been saved from this if there had been ff || provision m the Act," said the S.M. If an Amendment were |! Jf made to the Act, it would assist the probation officer consider- II |1 ably with other young men, and, m his opinion, the provision II f| should be made. if || "It would save a great deal of trouble, " said Chief- ff If detective Hammond. || If Taylor was sent to the Borstal Institute for three years, ff Emiilu'iiiiiimiimmiiiiii'iiu"""" 111 "" 111 """" 1 ' 111 ' 1 " 1 ' 1 """" 111 " iiiil'iiiiuuiumiuuiiuiuiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiuiii uiiuiiuiiiiiuiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiwi:iMiiiiimiuiii!ii!''ii'i'ii'iml!| J lJ[||]|!ljJ!ll,'^|