Juvenile Depravity.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 4 June 1888, Page 2

Juvenile Depravity.

Per Press Association. Auckland, Juno 2. 1 Another instance of juvenile crino was exhibited at the Police Court this morning, when a boy, aged 10| yeers, named Geo. Burgess was charged before Dr Giles with setting fire to a whare, at Swanson, and stealing a silver watch and jrold chain. In giving his decision, Dr Giles said he did not know what state things were coining to when children of that age were constantly coming before the Court on charges of larceny and other offences. It was indeed a sad state of affairs to have the youths and children of the Colony constantly coming before the Court and being sent to gaol. No doubt the gentlemen of the press who were present°in Court would not fail to notice the statement of the boy that ho could not , £ e ]p doing it. It seemed to him to be an answer which should suggest serious consideration for . the Legislature in dealing with the question of education of youths. The boy wa3 sentenced to receive six strokes from the birch rod, to be imprisoned in the police cells for 43 hours, and bo then sent to Kohimaramara Industrial School, and bo kept there until he was id years of age.