A FAMILY DISAGREEMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3853, 17 January 1928, Page 18

A FAMILY DISAGREEMENT.

GIRL’S HOME LIFE.

MAGISTRATE’S ADVICE TO PARENTS.

HAMILTON, January 13. “ I do not think the girls’ home influence is in her best interests,” commented Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Hamilton to-day, in admitting a 17-year-old Morrinsville girl to probation for 12 months on a charge, which she admitted, of attempting to take her life. According to the police, the girl some time ago drank from a bottle marked “ poison,"’ and yesterday she again threatened to take her life. Her parents had her arrested, asseiting that they were unable to keep her under control. Her father, a man of 60, admitted that he never took his children to any amusements and never allowed his girls to attend dances.

His Worship: I think it is your duty to take your children out. You cannot expect them to sit at home with their parents all the time. As far as the pulses of life are concerned, you have not much in common with your girl. The mother said the girl could not agree with her sister, and was in the habit of going out with boys. She had climbed out of the window on one occasion, and had also threatened to run away with a circus hand.

His Worship considered that the girl would be better out working for her living, as she desired to do, provided si e she was under proper supervision. This would be better than remaining at home quarrelling with her sister and out <£ sympathy with her parents.