“The only ■way his guardian can keen him at- home at nights is byi Sing him up in girls’ clothes,“l stated Chief-Detective MoMahon of a small boy of seven years from Pon-. sortby way, who admitted in the Auck-* land Juvenile Court that he had bros ken into a butcher’s shop and spoiled a quantity of meat by leaving the door of the cold storage room open. It was stated that the lad, who w» partly of Island extraction, was being looked after by a guardian while hia parents were away in Samoa, but that his unruly ways made him 'unoontrol. lablo, and the original method men-, tioned by the chief-detective was the only way in which his guardian could keep him at homo to prevent his sleeping out. The little fellow was committed to the Weraroa Training Farm.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8608, 19 December 1913, Page 6
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