NEWTON LARRIKINISM.
(To tbe Editor.) Sir.—Two year? ago I moved a resolution at a meeting of Newton householders: "That all young boys seen loitering about the streets of a night time ho instructed to attend an ever.in? school or stay in their own homes." Unfortunately." for want of support from the residents of the district, my resolution lapsed. To-day we find our boys referred to as hooligans and criminals, and I claim that the residents of the district are to blame. No boy was ever born a criminal; it is the economic and social conditions that make him such. We make the environment and the environment makes the boy. The healthy lad of 13 is a living mass of energy, which, directed into right channels, would make him a good citizen and a credit to the district to which he belongs. The magistrate, Mr. Hunt, was right when he said: "1 know, a patrol is what you want." That is quite true. We want social reform so as to prevent our boys from taking the wrong road.—l am. etc., D. BRADLEY.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 10
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