TEN STROKES OF BIRCH.
BOY PUNISHED FOR THEFT.
Ten strokes of*the birch were ordered by Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Juvenile Offenders Court on Saturday, as punishment of a boy, 14 years of age, who was charged with stealing £2 ss, the property of Lillian K. Webb, and with stealing 12s, the property of some person unknown. The boy, who was formerly an inmate of. the Nelson Boys' Training School, had been licensed out to a resident of Point Chevalier. He went to the residence of Mrs. Webb, at Grey Lynn, where ho took £2 5s from a purse in the kitchen. The other money he took from a man's coat, and then ran away to Helensville. He was ordered tea strokes of the birch and committed to the Wercroa Industrial School. Another boy was discharged on a charge of having committed mischief. The juvenile probation officer stated that the lad had been soundly whipped in his presence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 5
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