BOYS AT THE RACES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 4

BOYS AT THE RACES.

GETTING IN OH "FENCE ■■ ■'■ • TICKETS." A MAGISTERIAL SCGGESfm The matter Of unattached small boj» attending race meetings was mtatkmti again this morning in the JtiV*a!l* Court when four lade, who had got* ii . a race meeting on the proceed* of tk« sale of race cards, were up before ifr. F. V. Frazer, S.M. The youngster* cam* up for sentence for thefts comaitud from business places which they tnttrti surreptitiously, and they had other timilar ventures mapped out whtn\ PlainClothes Constable MdSugh dropped on them. The Probation Officer (Mr. 1. 3. ■ Shell), who had made inquiry eoneerning the home and school life of tt* ltd*, recommended that two of them,>.;jutt under 13 years 6f age, be sent to inda»trial schools, and that the other*, igtd . I eleven and eight respectively, be k«pt under observation for a few months. Mr. Shell reiterated hi* remark* «. spec ting the advisableness of drawing tit attention of racing clubs to the need for stricter supervision of boys at iai» meetings. He was sure the matter only required mention, as the dobs M not look with favour on the present* el small boys at the races, and it wu Jteirable that some measure* of ehould be taken. He had seen boys 'asking up tickets and getting older (rieaii to put the money on the totalkator, while others took part in "sweep*," *ki on one occasion the actions of a boy of fourteen satisfied him that the lalwif "bookying? on the course." Senior-Sergeant Rutledge rein*rk*i that moet of the boye who went to ra«M;. unaccompanied by parents or guirdui^ffi had tickets," that ie, they got 6b the course by the inexpensive mean* 6f; climbing over, under and through tfe; fences when the .eyes.of the.feikceVgaSsil dians were turned the other way. ; $£im His )Vorehi{>.remarked that.Jii* ttlt cure tKe :: matter *only 6 ing,' as reputable taali boye a nuisance. Probably an .in*thu--- ; tion to gatekeepers not to admit M«S boys unless. they were accoap*eied!S*|f parents of guardians, and to the »•*«■ course detectives to eject all unattaekel I small 'boy≤ would meet the case. Tttti : I ', was a danger that boys who. got tie-. I gambling habit would not h*ve .tht! jfiSjfß control to keep the 'habit within ; limits, as older persons could do, that reason it was undesirable that li/i: I should attend races unchecked. *"- ' ■ Hie Worship committed the two «M*r I b6ye in the case before him to training f&rnie, one at Nelson arf~fw|§l other at VVeraroa. Tie other t«« liii I were put on probation for six moatt». ; V::- I