CHILD OFFENDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 11

CHILD OFFENDERS.

SEVERAL CASES OF THEFT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) PI'KKKOHR, Tuesday. Tlie Pnkekolip Children's Court wae busy this morning;, when seven l¥>ys, whose ages ranged from seven to fifteen years, appeared before Mr. F. 11. Levien, S.M. Two boys, aged eight years, and another aged seven years, appeared for setting fire to a haystack at YVaiau Pa, in January. It was pointed out that the parents had paid • compensation to the owners of the stack. The charges were dismissed. Another l>oy, aged 12 years, who, it was stated, was not under proper control, was charged with stealing three bicycle* of a total value of £17. He was committed to the care of the child welfare officer. A Maori boy was admonished and discharged for stealing a bicycle valued at at Pukekohe, on June <i. A lifteen-ycar-old schoolboy was charged with committing mischief by wilfully damaging a church collection box to the extent of 2/0, and with the theft of a sum of money from a church at Kastbourne. The bov was admonished and ordered to refund 1/9, that l>eing his share of the money taken, two other boys having been implicated.

The theft of £30 at Tuakau, between January 14 and 28, led to the appearance of a fourteenvear-old boy, who was already under the care of the child welfare officer. The boy was admonished and discharged.