"NOT MUCH IN COMMON"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 11, 14 January 1928, Page 7

"NOT MUCH IN COMMON"

FATHER AND DAUGHTER (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, 13th January. "I do not think the girl's home influence is in her best interests," commented Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Hamilton to-day, in admitting a seven-teen-year-old Morrinsville girl to probation for twelve months, on a charge, which she admitted, of attempting to take her life. According to the police, the girl some time ago drank from a bottle marked poison, and yesterday she again threatened to take her life. Her parents had her arrested, asserting they were unable to keep her under control. Her father, a man of 60, admitted he never took his children to any amusements, and never allowed his girls to attend dances. His Worship: "I think it your duty to take your children out. You cannot expect them to sit at home with their parents all the time. Aa far'as the pulses of life, are concerned, you have not much in common with your girl." The mother said the girl could not agree with her sister, and was in the habit of going out with boys. She had climbed out of a window on one occasion, and had also threatened to run away with a circus hand. His Worship considered that the girl would be better out working for her living, as she desired to do, provided she was under proper supervision. This would be better than remaining at home quarrelling with her sister, and out of sympathy with her parents.