PLEASURE JAUNT IN BORROWED BOAT.
SHANNON YOUTHS FINED. Charged with. unlawfully converting a boat on the Otaurau stream for their own use, two Shannon youths, Normau Sydney Holden and Edgar Henry Christian, appeared lyestafrd'ay' efore Mr J. L. Stout, S : .M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty. , Senior Sergeant Whitehouse .stated that on March 12, the two youths had appropriated thei boat and taken. it down the river. They had got into difficulties and had left the craft, which had drifted further down the stream and suffered considerable damage.
On being asked whether they had anything to say, one of the pair stated that they had “done their best to ’save the boat, but the river had been too swift.
The Magistrate fined each offende £2 10s with costs, stating that th '• penalty would be a lesson to them. 3' ' l, j A JUVENILE CASE. - At a sitting of the juvenile Court at c. Palmerston North on Friday a local boy >f charged with petty theft was ordered y to be handed over to the charge of the ’ Child Welfare Officer.
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Shannon News, 23 April 1929, Page 3
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184PLEASURE JAUNT IN BORROWED BOAT. Shannon News, 23 April 1929, Page 3
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