YOUTHS GET CHANCE
BOOKS FOR CHARITY STOLEN “STRAIGHTENING THEM UP’ Two youths who stole books from a receptacle for books for charity were given a chance by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. Mr. Hunt did not want to convict the youths, so, to keep them in touch with the law, he adjourned the case fo.r three months, ordering the offenders to report regularly to the police. William Edward Thomas, aged 17, and James Hughes, 19, were the youths. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that both had been nearing the road to larrikinism. The charge was that the young men stole three books, the property of the Mayoress’s War Memorial League. Both admitted their guilt. Mr. McCarthy said that the youths had been lingering near the wharves. A constable saw them extracting the books from a box on the Ferry Wharf. “They are staying about the wharves too frequently, but, as far as I know, there is nothing else against them,” Mr. McCarthy said. “They are drifting into larrikinism, but 1 don’t wish to be hard on them.” Mr. Hunt: The books are to be returned, and they will report regularly to the police. That will straighten them up.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 9
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202YOUTHS GET CHANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 9
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