YOUTH AND A GIRL.
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fUT TELEGRAPH.- PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] "WELLINGTON, Saturdny.
After inducing a girl 16 years of age to draw her savings from the Post Office Bank, Lester John Gordon Humphries (19) left Nelson in company with her for Wellington. On the trip over the girl stole some money belonging to another passenger, and she was charged in the Juvenile Court this morning, while Humphries had to answer a charge of vagrancy. >
Sub-Inspector Lander Humphries had twice come under the notice of tho Child Wclfaro Department. • Mr. Page, S.M., sent him to the Weraroa Training Farm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20385, 14 October 1929, Page 13
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100YOUTH AND A GIRL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20385, 14 October 1929, Page 13
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