HARBOURING CHARGE
GIRL ESCAPED FROM HOME WOMAN AND SON CONVICTED [by telegraph— press association] CHRISTCHUKCH. Thursday " There was nothing sinister in this case. These people erred through kindness of heart," said counsel, Mr„ H. H. Hamm, in the Magistrate's Court this morning, when a mother and her son, Gladys Orchard and Norman Frederick Orchard, were charged with knowingly harbouring a girl who had escaped from the Burwood Girls' Home. Accused were convicted and ordered to pay costs. Sub-inspector McLean said there had bean a number of escapes from the liome, and the help of the community was exacted in returning the girls to that and other institutions. He added that the (recused did not at first know the girl had escaped, but kept her even after they had found out. The magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey, said the public mu.>t be made aware of the fact that there was a severe penalty—a fine of £SO or three months —for that type of offence. " This shows the serious view taken of this sort of thing by the Legislature," he added.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22776, 9 July 1937, Page 15
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