AN UNPROMISING YOUTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9303, 9 March 1907, Page 4

AN UNPROMISING YOUTH.

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INVERIaRGILL, March 7. ~i At the Juvenile Court, a boy of four-* teen was charged on two counts with breaking and theft, also with having been found' in possession of a rifle, he being under the ag^ of' 16. The police said that the boy had' had rather a remarkable careeT of crime. Recently he paid two visits to Christchurch endi one to Edendale, though ail! the money his mother 'had .given ham was 14s.- At GhxistehuTch/he borrowed 9s 6d firom a gentleman wiho travelled in the 6ame carriage, promising to tefund the money. On has return, ne put the sum mentioned in a sugar bag, tiedi it up in a parcel, and sent it to his benefactor by post. The lad was an expert shot, arid when a rifle belonging to his uncle was taken from ham

because it was against the law* ha purchased another, which h? kept concealed in, a hedge, giving the owneis &s and 1 a (rug, 1 which he had taken from his home. The parents did not object to the boy going ( ; to Burnham for a ytar, and the Magis-..' trate, in committing him to that institution, said in adopting such, a- coiirse it was always with a great deal of regret. Thje training at the .school might be. serece, ,and in a great many cases good might result, but he had yet to learn that it was up to the standard which, should, obtain. There was, however, no alternative.