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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1896, 4 December 1923, Page 7

Owing, probably, to the scarcity of labour this season, there has been an unusually big demand from farmers 101 boys from the Wcraroa Training Farm. Between 50 and 60 have gone to farms in the Taranaki, Wanganui and Palmerston districts. The manager, Mr O’Donouglme, told a Wanganui Chronicle reporter that the present policy of the Department was to put as many boys as possible out in farm service under the supervision of the probation officers, rather than keep them m the reformatory institutions. Under this system the population at the farm was naturally much smaller than formerly.

The story of how a girl knocked a man out was unfolded at the Munvillumbah (New South Wales) Court recently, when Mark Daley answered a charge of indecent behaviour. ( Mavis Doris Phillips, a member of Godfrey s Boneless Wonders’ troupe, touring the country towns of the State,. told the court that Daley said something oftensive to her, when she told him to go away or she would knock him down. She went into a shop. When she came out Daley followed her to a tent and repeated wliat lie had previously said, whereupon she hit him on the jaw, knocking him out. Another man, standing near by, had told her lie would “put her to sleep” for hitting his friend, and she replied, “Have a try.” He turned and walked away. Daley, who pleaded guilty, said he remembered nothing after he was hit until he woke up in the police station. After he had cross-examined complainant, Dailey said: “Well, Miss, I must say you have a very good punch.” Daley was fined £5, in default a month’s imprisonment. The Magistrate complimented the girl upon her action, and said that if more girls acted in a similar way they would not be subject to insults and acts of hooliganism.