YOUTHFUL LAW BREAKERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19098, 17 August 1925, Page 7

YOUTHFUL LAW BREAKERS.

SEVERAL CHARGES HEARD. need of patrol officers. The need of moro city patrol officers under tho auspices of the Education Department was again urged by Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.IVL. in tho Juvenile Court on Saturday. The magistrate made his comments ;n a case in which four youths wero fined 10s each for behaving in a disorderly manner in Pitt Street by attacking a man who Cell to the ground when ono of them pushed him in the back.Wo will make a hole in thoir week's wages," Mr. Hunt remarked as ho ordered payment of 10s witness' expenses in each case. Sergeant- CalweO said the police received a lot of complaints of this sort of conduct at Newton. " As I havp said before," tho magistrate replied, " the Education Department ought to provide moro patrols. They cannot expect two men to do all tho visiting and look after the Probation Home, as well as patrolling the streets to stop this kind of thing. Mr. J. S. Culpit, juvenile probation Ofiicer, agreed that work could be found in Auckland for two or three more men. Theft of a packet of cigarettes from the pocket of a coat hanging in a dressing room in the Victoria Park grand' stand was admitted by a boy, aged 15. He was admonished and tho case was adjourned for 12 months, his father assur nig the Court that a sound thrashing had been administered. Through associating with one another and remaining out late at night con trary to tho instructions of tho probation officer, two boys, aged 16 and 18. wero charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in the King's Theatre. The accised wero charged with the offence on August 1 and the cases were adjourned for 12 months. Tho younger boy. who appeared in Court, was fined £1 and the case against the second boy is to be dealt with next Saturday. Six small boys were charged" with interfering with an electric warning bell at Normaiiby Road railway crossing. Mount Eden, on June 27. They wero admonished end discharged with the exception of one lad whoso case was adjourned for sis months.