CHILD WELFARE ACT.
NEEDS THOROUGH OVERHAUL/ CRITICISM FROM BENCH, j A CASE IN POINT. I (By Telegraph.—Presß Association.) WANGANUI, this day. A boy under fifteen years of age ap- i peared in the dock at the Supreme Court j this morning, having pleaded guilty to a ' charge of forging his employer's name for 16/. The magistrate, Mr. J. S. Bar- ! ton, during the sitting of the Child Welfare Court, had decided that he had no power to deal with the boy on an indictable offence. ! His Honor said that, although this j boy was thoroughly bad, he agreed that j it was very unfortunate that the Act | was so worded that the magistrate had j no power to deal with these cases. The , whole thing was a muddle, and the Act wanted a thorough overhaul. The boy was sentenced to three years' | reformative treatment, the judge inti-1 mating that he would be placed immediately in a Borstal institute.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 20 November 1926, Page 15
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