CHARGE AGAINST A BOY.
: ■ A PERNICIOUS HABIT, (ny - telkobal'u—phess v Association .V Auckland, February 27. At- the Police Court this'afternoon a boyof 15 years, who twelve, months ago entered, on his working . career... as , a messenger, pleaded guilty to' misappropriating! small sums amounting in . all to £17 ; 13s. lOd. The money was filched in various ways—stealing stamps, retaining money given him for sending telegrams,'collectingssmall accounts, and eo on. The lad's father j who expressed willingness to make restitution of all deficiencies, / explained ,that the boy had contracted the cigarette-smoking habit, otherwise he ; had always been an apparently good lad. ■ Ho, attributed the dishonesty in a large' measure to an effort to_obtain the wherewithal to. purchase these cigarottes. The Bench'warned the lad of the. danger, moral and . physical, to boys who contracted the cigarette-smoking habit; and took him severely to task' for. yielding to dishonest, temptation in order to indulge in the pernicious habit. • In-order:..' that he'should not start life with his.reputation damaged by a. conviction for dis- • honesty, the Bench decided to give him another chance, calling upon tho father to ro fund the deficiencies, with Court costs, i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 6
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189CHARGE AGAINST A BOY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 133, 28 February 1908, Page 6
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