“DEPLORABLE RECORD”
NOT WANTED IN DOMINIONS. The following was the record of Frederick Charles Green, aged 17, committed at the Surrey Quarter Sessions for Borstal treatment pri a. charge, or Stealing two bicycles :—Aged 9 : Stolelady’s bicycle. Sent to industrial Bchool. Aged 16: Sent to training ship. Given situation at South Shields. Eight days later arrested on stealing charge. Sent back to ship. Later: Joined Army. Father obtained discharge. Training ship again. Discharged. Joined' engineering firm. Lost situation at lock-out. Worked for baker. Discharged for stealing. The boy pleaded for another chance, saying he had an opportunity of going out to his brother-in-law in Canada. . The chairman (Mr W. W. Scott): I don’t think that Canada, would offer you a very warm welcome with such a record as you have. It is a deplorable record. Before leaving the court the boy’s mother embraced him affectionately. Within a few weeks patrol automobiles of the_New York Police Department will all be equipped with wireless apparatus. A special wave length is exclusively used for the police department.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 10
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