MISCHIEVOUS BOYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19086, 3 August 1925, Page 6

MISCHIEVOUS BOYS.

DISTURBANCE IN THEATRE. TROUBLE OVER A GIRL. Several boys appeared in the Juvenile Court on Saturday on various charges of mischievous behaviour. Five boys pleaded not guilty /to disorderly behaviour in King's Theatre, Newton. It was stated the trouble started oyer a girl. Two boys were sitting together and one asked the oilier to give his seat up to a girl friend. This he refused to do and a light commenced. One boy was knocked down in the melee and struck his head against the side of i\ seat. An usher who iras on duty said lie heard a noise upstairs arid went to investigate. Some of tho boys attacked him and his glasses were knocked off and broken. Tho affair was a real "rough and tumble." It was not the first occasion these boys had given trouble. " They are all young larrikins," said the magistrate, Mr. Hunt. They should do something useful at night instead of frequenting picture houses. They should be sent to a night school. Tho charge against the youngest boy was dismissed. Tho other four were ordered to bo placed under supervision of tho probation officer for twelve rnenths. Two were prohibited from attending picture theatres for a year and the other two wero prohibited for six months. Three youths admitted disorderly behaviour in Karangahapo Road on tho evening of Sunday, July 19. Senior-Sergeant Edwards said tho boys, apparently having nothing better to do, commenced running about Karangahapo Road. They stamped on shop verandahs, swung around posts, arid generally made nuisances of themselves. The two eldest later went into a telephone box and commenced to mishandle the instrument. The magistrate said thero was altogether too much of this kind cf thing in Karangahapo Road, He suggested there should he more patrols to prevent larrikirusm. Two of the boys were fmied £1 each and costs. The case against the youngest wa« dismissed, ! " He ought to get a spanking, but if his health is bad that is a different thing," Mr, Hunt said, in tho ease of a boy who admitted taking two bicycles belonging to other boys and damaging them. The father said the hoy Buffered from bad health and as anyone could see was undersized for bin ago. lie had never been aljowed out at night. Ho was ordered to make restitution of £2 6s, tho amount of damage to the bicycles, and was placed under supervision of the probation officer i for twelve months.