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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1925, Page 11

This morning a boy just under 16 was before the Juvenile Court, where he pleaded' guilty to two charges of converting other hoys' bicycles to his own use, ..After evidence had been given the magistrate, Mr. F. KJ Hunt, S.M., said that he understood that the. boy's father had bought him" a bicycle after he had stolen the other two' machines. "Yes, that is' go,'' said the father, who was jn Court. "I. was advised to do that by a policeman." Mr. ; Hunt: "Well, I think that was very bad advice. What you should have done was to give the boy something that',, would ,' make it impossible fpr him to sit on a bicycle for a long time. The case will be adjourned for one year and he will have to, make good the damage, £2 5/, done to one of the bikes." Not a prohibition campaign, but the dismantling of the Thames- Hotel, and Young "and. Co.. have. to sacrifice. £2300. worth of mien's .weir in lv days," so be early on Monday. 'The! prices areridi-, 'culbus.—(Ad;)'''.'"' ' " -