SIX BOYS AND A CAR.
YOUTHS RUN AWAY PROM TRAIN INO FARM PICNIC.
MOTOR ABANDONED AT HAL COMBE.
Boys who attempt to escape from the care of the Training Farm at Weraroa show more daring than discretion, for they not only undergo privations during their illicit liberty, but sooner or later are caught and returned to the institution with all the ignominy attending arrest and reprimand. Six of them are now dodging the police, presumably in the Oroua district, whither they went in an illegally; converted car on Thursday.
The circui :tances of the escapade w»re unusual. For about twelve months no boy had absconded from the Farm, where nearly all of them show appreciation of the kindly treatment accorded, them by the manager and staff, whose first interest is the boys' welfare. Cases where- renegade lads have had to be returned to the Farm during the past year were those of boys who had cleared away from servic* on farms to which they had been draited. On Thursday a picnic was held at the Ohau River, at the «ast end of Kimberley. Road, for between seventy and eighty of the boys, who were taken on the excursion under supervision. In the morning the manager, Mr J. O'Donohue, had addressed the boys, when he referred t) the good time that was provided for them at Christmas and the spirit of co-operation which it had-engendered. He asked them if, on being trusted at the picnic they would "play tlw game," and they all replied that they would. Unfortunately there were some who were not to be relied upon, as three of them slipped away from the picnic,, ground about one o'clock, and three more disappeared about o p.m. The same evening the escapees visited the garages at the residences of Mr P. O'Donnell, in Bartholomew Road, and Mr S. C. Butt, in Kawiu Road, in their search for a car to take them further afield,- but they were frustrated in each of these cases by the ears being locked. They proceeded then to Mr A. Mottershead 's, in Queenwood Road, where they broke the garage door, found the car unlocked, with three gallons of benzine in it, and drove away. On Friday, the car, abandoned at Halcombe, was found by the Feilding police.
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Shannon News, 19 March 1929, Page 3
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382SIX BOYS AND A CAR. Shannon News, 19 March 1929, Page 3
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