A DIFFICULT BOY.
TRUANT FROM WERAROA.
INQUIRY AS TO AGE.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Friday.
"This is the boy who won't work, sir," said the juvenile probation officer in describing a lad who appeared hefore Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., to-day, charged with absconding from the Weraroa Training Farm. The lad had been given several opportunities by the probation officer to tmake good, but eventually placed himself beyond the pale by stealing a cheque for £25 from a postal packet addressed to his employer, and for this had been committed to the Weraroa Training Farm. Within four days of his arrival however, he ran away. The police found him at Raglan. The magistrate seemed inclined to commit the lad to - the Borstal reformatory at Invercargill, but a diffi ult-y arose as. though his age according to the police was 16, the lad himself declared that he was only 15. The case was remanded for a week to enable the lad's age to be definitely ascertained.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 13
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166A DIFFICULT BOY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 13
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