Children’s Court In January

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31936, 13 March 1969, Page 5

Children’s Court In January

On a charge of driving while intoxicated, a boy. aged 16, was put on probation for 18 months, fined $5O. and disqualified from driving for three years, when he appeared before the Children’s Court in January.

Other cases dealt with by Children's Court in the Christchurch district in January were:

Six children, aged from four months to eight years, were deemed to be indigent, and were committed to the care of the Superintendent of Child Welfare, as were two girls, aged 15, who were not under proper control. A boy, aged 13, charged with false pretences, theft and taking a motor-car. a boy, aged 11, charged with burglary, and a boy, aged 13. charged with theft and the unlawful taking of a cycle, were similarly dealt with.

A boy, aged 12, charged with burglary, was put under Child Welfare supervision for 18 months, as was a 15-year-old girl charged with theft. She was also fined $2O and ordered to make restitution of $33. Two bovs, aged 16, who appeared oh burglary charges, were placed under supervision for one year and ordered to make restitution of $6.33 each. A similar period of supervision was ordered for a boy, aged 14; charged with theft, a boy, aged 15, charged with receiving, a girl,, aged 15, appearing on a complaint that she was not under proper control, a boy, aged 16 charged with assault (also fined $l5), a boy, aged 11, charged with theft (restitution $10), and a boy, aged 14, charged with burglary and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.

A girl, aged 16. who appeared on a complaint that she was a delinquent child, was placed under supervision till her seventeenth birthday, and a boy. aged 15, charged with receiving, had his present period of supervision extended by one

A 13-year-old boy, charged with lhefl, was placed under supervision for an additional six months.

Six boys, aged 14 and 15, charged with theft, were ad monished and discharged, as were a boy, aged 16. who was unlawfully on premises, a boy. aged 15. who drove while disqualified (further disqualified one year), a boy. aged 15, charged with theft and wilful damage (restitution $18), a boy, aged 16, drunk in a public place, a boy, aged 15, charged with burglary, and a girl, aged 15, found drinking in a public) place. Three girls, aged 15 and 16, charged with escaping from lawful custody, were admonished and returned to the care iof the Superintendent of Child Welfare. One girl was also charged with theft and ordered to make restitution of $9. Also admonished and returned were two boys, aged 14 and 15, charged with unlawfully taking a motor-car, a girl, aged 16. who answered charges of being idle and disorderly and obtaining credit by fraud, a boy. aged 13. charged with theft, and a boy. aged 16. charged with burglary. He was ordered to

MR G. J. d'AUVERGNE, the manager of the Temuka branch of the Australia and New Zealand Bank, Ltd, who will retire on March 26 after 45 years service. Mr d’Auvergne joined the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd, at Christchurch in 1923, and served at Rangiora, Ashburton, Geraldine, Dunedin, and Marton before being appointed accountant of the Invercargill branch. He returned to the Ashburton branch as accountant in 1953, and assumed his present post in 1963. He will be succeeded by Mr D. E. Lee. audit officer of the bank at Wellington.

make restitution of $6. Fines were imposed as follows: a boy, aged 17, purchased liquor, $l2; a girl, aged 16, unlawfully on licensed premises, $8; a boy, aged 16, theft, $5 (minor drank liquor. $10; drapk in a public place, $10); two boys, aged 16, assault, $l5 each; a girl, aged 16, on licensed premises, $2; a boy, aged 15, obstructed a constable, $25; a boy, aged 16, theft, $10; a boy, aged 15, theft, $lO (wilful damage, $lO, restitution. $6.18); a boy, aged 16, on licensed premises, $l5; a boy, aged 15, drove at a speed which might have been dangerous, $4O (disqualified one year); a girl, aged 16, receiving, $4O: a boy, aged 16, disorderly behaviour, $2O; a boy, aged 16, purchased liquor, $2O; a boy, aged 16, drank liquor in a public place, $l5; a boy, aged 15, on licensed premises, $l4; a boy, aged 16, burglary, $25; a boy, aged 14. burglary, $25; a-boy, aged 16, drank while minor, $l5; a boy, aged 14, theft, total of $56.