WAYWARD GIRLS
Need For Preventive Arrest
<By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 14. Mr. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court this morning drew attention to the necessity for preventive arrest and protective patrols to deal with cases of wayward girls it! the city streets. He had before him a young Maori girl who, it was stated in evidence, had no money and for two months had been sleeping in parks. She was arrested in a military garage in the city where it was said she and another girl had been taken by servicemen. She was remanded for hospital observation. A number of other girls, mostly Maoris, also faced vagrancy charges. The majority were placed in homes on probation, the! magistrate advising them that a breach would mean two years’ borstal.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 119, 15 February 1944, Page 4
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