MISCHIEVOUS BOYS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 10

MISCHIEVOUS BOYS

DAMAGE IN TECHNICAL

SCHOOL

"I want you to realise that if you 'had been a bit older you might hare boon sentoneed to a term of imprisonnieiit for the sorious damage which you have done," were thewords with which Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M., addressed three boys at tho Petono Juvenile Court today.

During the school holidays the Petone Technical School was twice entered- and very considerable damage was done. .Preserved eggs, to be used ia the cookery class, were broken and' smeared over the walls, floors, and ceilings of several rooms. Flour, and Jeyeg fluid were used likewise. Papers wef« destroyed, chemical apparatus broken, and. windows smashed. Altogether; the damage and the cleaning necessary-to' be done amounted to £18 3s 6d. T'"

The boys wore severely admonished/ ■and one, who was proved to; be.the ringleader in both offences, was placed under the supervision of the Welfare Officer for twelve 'months. The boys* guardians were'ordered to make good the, damage, the greater part falling on the guardians of the ringleader, there being circumstances Which made it impossible to collect in the case of oiio of .the- boys; ■ ' ■• •.., :. :--■-

't'-I'lic prime mover in these -offences was, also; concerned with, the breaking' ►of two windows in a private residence, arid in this case ho had to share with another boy the cost- of the-^damage, £1 9s. _• ■■..■..■.•■. '.'. ■' :..■■,' ,::-''-;'' .- ■/..... ■•: