STRICT DISCIPLINE

Northern Advocate, 14 August 1931, Page 7

STRICT DISCIPLINE

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■(Special to ‘‘Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. ‘‘V-oung boys cannot be permitted Ip go about the country breaking and entering* and stealing," sail Mr Justice Herdman, in the Supreme Court today, in . sentencing two young men from Whakatan e, Allan Victor Raymond and Cyril 'Cedric Walker, to two

years in. a Borstal institute for two' . ■ offences .of breaking, and Entering. . Mr Hbgben, in a plea for probation, . * submitted that the present policy was generally to encourage reformation of* . character by" every means possible. . His llonour Said there were lots of. cases, in which, probation was deair-. able, but in a case, like this, where' ■ two young Iseamps would hot behave, ... .but made themselves a nuisance to the eommuiiity, there* was a suitable * * ; institution provided. Mi Hpgbeh said Walker was a hardworking' young man, and a business firm at Whakatane, which controlled ' about twenty farms, was willing to give him permanent - .employment.* There was also an" offer of work for / Raymond. - Both lads got into trouble during, a period of idleness. , 1 . “It is 1 no reflection on' any 'prison r system, tb‘ say that the individual in-/ fluenee of a good citizen must be bet-//-’ tef’than that d& an 'institution where-' /’ a lad is .only one among many,” sub-« - J mitted He described the crimes as/‘the acts of larrikins, who" were irresponsible.-" His Honour (to the prisoners): *‘l don't propose, to'admit you, to- proba-f // tiohf I am qnite satisfied .'that you . , / should be detained for soiue- time and j.' placed under strict Walker’s caseothe, reports wpre,entir^'3 •ly 1 unsatisfactory.'’ Theses/ cpurae. t /’,/. : was to send both accused 'to Waikeria : ■ , , - , .V, Borstal Institute. .w, <’ / -T- ---. , - , .