BOYS BEYOND CONTROL.
■■■■ i o CASES IN JUVENILE COURT. The plea that their beys were beyond control was advanced by the majority of the parents whose children appeared
I before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in tho i Juvenile Offenders Court on Saturday. I A nine year-old boy who was found sleeping out in Liverpool Street admitted . having stolen a tablecloth, a pillowslip, . and two novels from places he could not | identify. Tho father, a waterside worker I with three other children, said the mother could not control tho boy, who had run ■ away from home several times. Tho i magistrate adjourned the case to give tho boy tho benefit of three months' correction in the Probation Home, the father being ordered to pay 10s a week toward his son's upkeep. The theft of £2 from various tills and the receipts from tho saJe of papers was 1 admitted by a boy of ten, whose mother said she could not control him. The boy | had run away from the Takapuna Homo I and seemed to bo determined to escape I discipline. He was committed to the j Probation Home. ] Charged with being idle and disorderly, i a lad of about 14 years was Btated to be ; abnormal by reason of his personal habits, and be was placed under the supervision ! of the probation officer, for three months. Two boys from Howick admitted having entered a house and stolen some food. The evidence showed that the boys ran their trolley into a garden during the 1 owner's absence, entered the house and I had a good meal of tinned food and went j away leaving the gate open. Pigs entered ' through the open gate and uprooted tomato vines and vegetables. As the boys bad been severelv punished by their parents they were admonished and discharged on payment of costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18050, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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