OFFENCES BY JUVENILES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16498, 26 March 1917, Page 6

OFFENCES BY JUVENILES.

■".,■ A sitting of the Juvenile Offenders' ' 'Court' was -conducted by Mr. F. ; V. '""'■ •Frazeri;:S;sl.j>. on Saturday morning;.. Sis lads,, charged with ■ riding bicycles; on /the footpath' .of-: St. Stephen's Avenue, Par- ,, nell, •'admitted, the offence. -/Thi: three ; younger.-, boys' were admonished , and' discharged, while the elder, lads were each fined 5s and 7s'costs.; -A girl, 11 years of age, admitted stealing a letter con- ■■•, taining a£l note from a box attached to the gate of a residence.at Ellerslie. She . was admonished by, the magistrate on the , subject interfering with other people's . goods, am), placed on probation for three ;•■;-, months. .A boy of 15 years, who stole a t- watch and chain while working ,on a coastal boat, 'was put ■ on probation for six ';; ■ :.months.-:-Another youth, for theft of a , bicycle, was nominally committed to St I , Mary s Industrial School,, but fallowed. to f,hf : r remain under his parents' control : so long :, ;•as he .was 'of , good behaviour. .For steal- -'■: ing 21s - and "causing-damage to;a motor- .;. . launch, a youth, just under 16 years of ;.;. t \ ..ace, r ■ \yasi nominally committed • to;"the ; Weraroa Training Farm.: The cost of re- ..:,:.'. pairing, the boat, -amounting to £3, s to ■_ _ -be paid by. the boy's father.