TOO MANY DANCES
EFFECT ON JUVENILES COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday "I am convinced that quite a ]ot of juvenile crime arises from young people going too often to dances/' said Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., when sentencing two youths of 18 on charges of converting motor-cars to their own use. and theft. The probation officer's report showed that the accused had frequented dances often, had been cheeky at home, and inattentive to their work. The frequency with which youths generally attended dances, said Mr. Paterson, was simply piling up trouble for the future. It would be a good plan, he added, if youths under a certain age were prohibited from attending public dances.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 6
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