"JOY-RIDER" ADMONISHED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16113, 30 April 1923, Page 7

"JOY-RIDER" ADMONISHED.

SCHOOLBOY'S ESCAPADE

The youngest member of tho party which took a motor car from Sumpr on a recent evening for a "joy-ride," appeared before Mr. Widdowson, BM-, in the Juvenile Court at Christchurch on Saturday. He was charged with using » motor car unlawfully. The eldest member of the party, Olivpr Craddock, was fined £lO in the Magistrate'** Court on Friday.

The car was taken from a- garage about midnight, and when the- party reached Riccarton it broke down and the party had to abandon it and struggle homo to Sumner on bicycles. The boy who appeared this morning was, tin overgrown lad of 16, a scholar at the local secondary school. Mr. E. W. White, who appeared for accused, said the facts were admitted, but there were one pr two extenuating circumstances. There was ono "ringleader" in tho matter. The accused had bften a day boy at the Christchurch school, and would now become a boarder so that he would be under sjtrict discipline. The boy's mother said he bad never given any trouble before, and bis school reports had always been excellent, i

The Magistrate said that as accused had such a good character and had been given such good reports at school he thought that, without minimising the seriousness of the offence, ho need only admonish and discharge him.