FIVE ESCAPEES SENTENCED
(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.} WELLINGTON, February 20. Five youths who recently escaped from the Weraroa training farm and travelled through the country in two parties were charged in the Children s Court to-day with numerous offences of dishonesty and unlawful conversion of several motor-cars. The police said the authorities at the training farm had been unable to control them and it was considered that the boys should be sent to a Borstal Institution. The magistrate committed them to a Borstal Institution for three years.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 11
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