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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 7

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MAGISTRATE CUTTEN'S WAT. MODERN METHODS WITH BAD BOYS. •Juveniles who have done those things which they ought not to have done are .leak with* by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in a kindly but effective manner when they appear before him iu the Children's Court. "You see. it is not the effect on the other boys that we are concerned about, but the effect that these mean thefts will have on yourself," he told a boy of twelve, who admitted this morning that he had taken money from the pockets of boys' clothing at a public swimming bath. "You see, if you can take small sums like (id and 1/4 to-day, what will it be to-morrow? What will it be in a tew years' time? It was a very mean and low-down thing to take that'money, wasn't it? Now. you just think very -orimislv about this, and make up your mind that you will never do a dirty' iliing like that again. You may go now." Three small boys, each of whom gave his age as eleven, were the next to appear. They had been guilty of breaking and entering into the Birkenhead School, where they stole money from the penny bank which had been established by the headmaster. "We are not so much interested in the meanness of your actions, for what is really important is that what you have dune is so serious to yourself," said Mr. Cutten. "If you will do such things as l>ovs. what will you do when you are men '.' If you do what is w-rong now, you go on and get worse and worse. You will be most unhappy in this world, and nobody will want you. Make up your minds never to do a mean, dirty thing like this again.''