BORSTAL TERM A FARCE
youth learned bad habits THERE Press A saociation NAPIER, To-day. The probation officer told the court to-dav that the year spent in the Borstal Institute by G. Basil Hodgson for obscene language at Hamilton was only a farce, and the prisioner there learned bad habits. The magistrate said that accused apparently was determined, not to be reformed. He was sentenced to four ■nonths’ imprisonment on each of four charges of theft of cycles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 573, 28 January 1929, Page 1
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77BORSTAL TERM A FARCE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 573, 28 January 1929, Page 1
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