SERIOUS OFFENCE.
JOCKEY GETS HARD LABOUR. JUDGE’S - COMMENT. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 20. “I desire to say that this is a grave as well as a sad circumstance that a girl of 15 years should be allowed by' her parents or guardians to go unescorted to a public dance,” said Mr Justice Smith, when sentencing Claude James Regan, a jockey, to seven years’ hard labour for a serious offenco at Hamilton. “This case illustrates the peril of such conduct in a tragic way. It shows the need of adequate training and supervision. If that had been available for this girl it is a reasonable inference that slie would never have been in the company of a person previously unknown to her beside a vacant piece of land at midnight. YOUNG PEOPLE AT DANCES. “It also raises in a tragic manner the question whether the proprietor of every dance hall and the organisers of every public dance should not voluntarily see that obvious juveniles are turned away from public dances unless they are escorted. Much public anxiety would be allayed if this were done, and also if the proprietor of every dance hall and the organisers of every public daneo would take vigorous steps to eject any person under the influence of liquor.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 146, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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213SERIOUS OFFENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 146, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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