FREQUENT ESCAPES
WERAROA TRAINEES
MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., This Day.
Two boys who escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm on March 31 came before Mr. J. Stout, S.M., in the Children's Court yesterday faced with 24 charges involving breaking and entering and theft and car conversion. Several of the cars were seriously damaged. One boy, being under the age of 15, was ordered to be returned to the farm but the other boy was mentally deficient and the Child Welfare Department- is to be asked to take steps to send him elsewhere. The Magistrate suggested to the manager of the farm that he should advise the Department that more care should be taken in selecting boys sent to the farm. Boys with bad "lists" who were not likely to remain at the farm and take advantage of the training should not be sent there.
The matter was becoming a public scandal, said Mr. Stout, in referring to the number of escapes which have recently been made from the farm. It was not fair to settlers that that class of boy should be sent there.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 84, 9 April 1938, Page 13
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