THE CHILDREN'S COURT.
i TO it) BDITOB 0* THE PRISS. i fir,—The Christchurch Fire Board : * Hi ditcnggion reported in to-day's "kr" Cotwic^ the penalty of £5 ■ Butted upon a child for giving several alarms of fire. It appears that **o boys, aged 15 and 17, were the Children's Court charged several malicious false /22? s*' 5 *' ® re the younger boy was ''SS? BU pervision of the Welfare Department for 24 •Mtta aiid fined £5, and the elder, boy tower supervision for 18 months. llMltion appears to have been •* to whether the penalty im■V.the Magistrate was not too iM it was suggested that the department should be written a© doubt, that it might Magistrate to "please has had occasion to visit fl* Court on two occasions, tty that I have been much w ith the way the proceedings Sgj®®##eted. I have noted the jaßßr-froy the Magistrate has dealt children, and can only say mind the Court Bhows a real a PP*eciation of the purpose Sr Welfare Act.—Yours, etc., ■KuL ' . ONLOOKER, l2th, 1930.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 13
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