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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 57

At the Juvenile Court on the 12th three boys were charged with discharging firearms in a railway carriage, and two of them were also charged with firing guns at Abbotsford. The Sub-inspector said that the boys were members of the Caver sham Cadet Corps. They were travelling by train to Green Island on November 22. They were in uniform, and armed with their rifles, it appeared that members of tho Cycling Corps were on the train at the same time, and they had two boxes of cartridges, which they foolishly distributed among the boys. On the way out the three boys before the court fired a number of shots off tho railway carriage platform and out of the windows One of the members of the Cycling Corps, whom they had been unable to find, borrowed one of the rifles, and also fired three shots from the platform. The Magistrate (Mr Bartholomew): “ Tha men wore really responsible, and it is a great pity they are not before tho court,” The Sub-inspector: “ The trouble is to geK them.” His Worship dismissed the case against one of the boys for discharging firearms in a railway carriage, out admonished and discharged him "on a similar charge committed at Abbotsford, the other boys were also dealt with in the same way. The parents were ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses. Depositor's in the British Poet Office Savings Bank were credited last year with £3,772,755 interest.