YOUNG GIRLS' ESCAPADE.
ESCAPE FROM INSTITUTION. [BY TELEGBAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. I DUNEDIN. Wednesday Two young girls pleaded guilty m the Magistrate's Court to-day to a charge of being idle and disorderly. They were #nmates of the CavershanT Industrial School, from which they 'absconded on October i. The police said the girls made their way back among the hills and formed an acquaintance with some youths, who took them to a whare, where they stayed over the week-end. Later they accom panietl other youths to a whare at Waitati, where they were arrested. The industrial home authorities reported that the girls were incorrigible, and had absconded several times: The magistrate ordered the suppression of their names, and sentenced them to Borstal detention for three year«.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19778, 27 October 1927, Page 14
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