BORSTAL FOR YOUTHS
BURGLARIES AT ROTORUA OFFENCES INCREASING Two youths, Charles Vivian Gillam and George Clarence Child, who broke and entered and stole from business premises m Rotorua, were sentenced by Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court today each to a year’s detention in ahe Borstal Institution. For Gillam, Mr. Ilolmden said that the young man had not been in trouble previously. Some weeks prior to these crimes he had been involved in an accident at Whakarewarewa, and had been unable to return to his work. He had got into bad company, and, being very weak, and easily led, he and another broke into a hairdressing saloon. The pair used the razors they took from these premises to cut down a door with. Mr. Noble, who represented Child, 19 years of age, said the lad had been out of employment, and he had got into bad company. Comment was made by his Honour that breaking, entering, and burglarv seemed to be increasing, and in his opinion it would be wrong to grant probation, considering the deterrent effect of punishment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 941, 7 April 1930, Page 10
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180BORSTAL FOR YOUTHS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 941, 7 April 1930, Page 10
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