INCREASE IN CRIME
SERIOUS POSITION DISCLOSED. AUCKLAND, June 13. Three of the four youths who broke and robbed many slot telephone and stamp machines were sentenced to-day to reformative detention. The probation officer remarked on the increase in crimes by youths. He said that already this week ten young men has been sent to the Borstal, and there was another batch to come up. The position Was becoming serious, and he did not know where it Would end.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 52
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78INCREASE IN CRIME Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 52
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