BOY WITH AN AIR-GUN.
\ POLICE COURT SEQUEL. The driver of aDunedin corporation dust cart received an unpleasant earpris® the other day when, while he was Forth Street, the pellet from an . air»jW® grazed his cheek. The sequel was ww appearance in the Juvenile Court of boy 12 years of age, charged with i discharge of firearms in a public pW-r. The senior-sergeant explained that, wn» a companion, the boy had gone g ß ® hunting in the wilds of Union and *'•>!** Streets. The sight of the gambolling cart had appealed to the sporting instinc of the ; arraigned ; hunter, but unfort® .■ lately - his aim was not so good as » might "hay© been, and the diachaxg® BW nearly hit the driver than the > cffili Was' stated by the juvenile probation offl that the boy* came; of respectable P 41 * 1 !?! who, like most parents, did : not B £ e ® f -| I realise; that an , air-gun was ' a niw. [within the meaning of the Arras [There was nothing against the bOJ|||B| jindicating the posslbhtjes of the,®v. 1 rash act, the magistrate admonished Pjgi. The payment of. Costa, - and the - turn of the gun were ordered. v ,|||
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 6
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