OUT OF SYMPATHY

Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 12

OUT OF SYMPATHY

— GIRL'S HOME LIFE (Per United Press Association.] HAMILTON, January 13. “ I do not think the girl’s home influence is in her best interests,” commented Mr Wyveru Wilson, S.M., at Hamilton to-day, in admitting a. seven-tecn-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 lile. Her parents had her arrested, asserting that they were unable to keep her under control. Her father, a man of sixty, admitted that he never took his children to any amusements and never allowed his girls to attend dances. His Worship: I think it is your duty to take your children out. You cannot expect them to sit, at home with their parents all the time. As 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 iu the habit of going out with boys. She had climbed out of the 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 he better than remaining at home quarrelling with her sister and out of sympathy with her parents.