PROBATION NOT OBSERVED.
GIRL SENT TO BORSTAL. " This girl treated the whole matter of reporting while on probation as a huge joke," said Major Annie Gordon, female probation officer, in the Police Court yesterday, when Marie Hickey, aped 19. domestic, denied a charge of failing to comply with the terms of her release on probation. Major Gordon said accused was admitted to probation for theft on August 7, 1950, but all the time she should have been reporting she treated the whole thing as a. joke. The only way the authorities ever got in touch with her was hy sending a desperate letter. Accused's parents had appealed to witness, and for her own sake she should be sent to the Borstal. " Why do you not behave yourself and work as others do?" the magistrate asked accused. "We are not going to have eirls- stealing and then paying no attention when put on probation." he added. Accused was convicted and sentenced to a term of not more than two years in the Borstal Institute.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21098, 4 February 1932, Page 11
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