GIRL IN COURT
PARENTS HAVE NO CONTROL *i (United Press Association) \ HAMILTON, 13th January. “I do not. think the girl’s home* in«. Alienee is in her best interests,” commented Mr Wyvern Wilsbn, S.M.,' at Hamilton to-day in admitting a seven-teen-vear-old Morrinsville girl to probation for twelve’ months, oh a charge; which she admitted, of attempting to take her life. " > > ■
According to the police, the girl sometime ago drank from a bottle jpatked pAisofr, find yesterday she threatened to take her life. , Her parents had her arrested, asserting they wei'e unable to keep her under control. Her father' a man of--GO, admitted he never took his children to any amusements, and. tiever allowed his girls to attend dances. ’ '• His’Worship :'“I thihV id j'oUr duty to take ydui' children out. Yoii eah'not expect'theftr to sit at home 'with their parents all the time. As lar 'as' the pulses of life are concerned, you have hot much in common with vour girl.' The’ mother said the girl could not agree with her sister, and was ; in the habit of going out'with hbys. She Had climbed- out of a window oil one o£casiorii ahd lin'd also threatened toTufi 'aivay'‘with a ; 'rufous hand’. - : •• ” ' ’ -
1 His Worship considered that the girl would be better :f ont- Svorkihg for 1 Edr living, as she desired to do, provided sKe Was’ under' proper 'supervision. ' ■'j&is would.be bettert than remaining at home quarrelling with her sister- aria oiit’ot sympathy .'with-'her "parents. ' "
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 January 1928, Page 3
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242GIRL IN COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 January 1928, Page 3
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