"NOT REALLY BAD."
YOUTHS BEFORE COURT.
PROBATION" GRANTED
"I have very seriously considered whether I should send you to some place where you would lose your liberty or admit you to probation, and hkve decided to grant probation," said Mr. J. Morling, S.M.. in dealing with thre<? youths. John Sherwood Simpson, William George Boyd and Edward George Smith, who. earlier in the week, appeared on a number of charges of theft or miechief.
The magistrate said that he believed from inquiries he had made that the boys were not really bad, and when they eoinmitted the offeuces they did not realise how grave the offences were or what the piinuhtnent might be. In admitting them to two year*' probation. Mr. Morling made it a condition that they do not frequent billiard •saloons and that they be at home during such hour* an directed by the probation officer. They would "also have to make restitution, Simpson £2 11/9, Boyd £8 16/6 and Smith £13 19/ld.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 9
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