THEFT OF MILK TOKENS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 8

THEFT OF MILK TOKENS

CHARGE AGAINST A BOY.

"All he had to do was to get up early in the morning before the milkman came around, extract the cash from his mother's milk bottle, and replace it with a coupon from a neighbour's bottle," said Senior-Sergeant Lander, of a lad, 11 years of age, who was charged in the Juvenile Court to-day before Mr. C. R. OrrWalker, S.M., with the theft of milk coupons in Ilalaitin.

"Magistrates arc faced with a problem in connection with juveniles in letting them off with probation," remarked the Bench. "It gets about among other boys that if they commit an offence, of thir? sort they will be given 0. reprimand and lot off, and some of them go away with a laugh That is what we are faced with. We don't go far enough in only not publishing the names. We should go further and not publish the facts at all. It seonii that is one of the remedies, I am quite confident in case? of first offenders and juveniles, where probation is allowed and the facts arc not published it does much in the interests of the administration of justice." The- Magistrate adjourned the c.ieo Tor three months and placed the boy under the supervision of the Probation Officer. His Worship said he would not order a whipping, but would leave tho im-iror to the discretion of ihe Probation Officer.