“I put it to you that you are more ■useful with a crowbar or an axe than with a pencil,” asked counsel at the Supreme Court in Napier yesterday. Witness took no exception "to the aspersions on his “pen-pushing” abilities and even went so far as to say that the pencil was a “darned nuisance” at times. Two small boys "'ho have been implicated in recent burglaries about Dunedin and who were detained in a probation home pending the Child Welfare Court’s dealing with them, escaped last night in their night attire and so far have not been recaptured.—(Press Association.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 18 August 1927, Page 5
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