GIRL AND PARENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 January 1928, Page 5

GIRL AND PARENTS

UNHAPPY AT HOME. (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, January 13. “I do not think this girl’s home influence is in her best interests,” commented Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at the Hamilton Court to-day, in admitting a 17-year-old Morrinsville girl to probation for 12 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 that they were unable to keep her under control. Her father, a man of 60, 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 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 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.