A VALUELESS CHEQUE.
YOUTH IjTtHOUBLE. '
ADMITTED TO PR,ORATION
The 16-year-old youth , James Charles White, who pleaded guilty to obtaining go-ods and money by means of a valueless cheque for £9, appeared for sentence before Mr, E. E. Levvey, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. ‘Senior-Sergeant, Fitzpatrick stated that lie had communicated with the Salvation Army authorities, who, however, considered the accused too old to be taken charge of by them. They considered tlie State should look after the accused. • .
The Magistrate : And between the two who is there to look after the youth? The Senior-Sergeant, said that the accused’s father was prepared to look after him. and provide work for him. He suggested that a., strict term of probation would probably straighten the youth up.
After hearing the boy’s father, the Magistrate said -fie would admit the’-ac-cused to probation for twelve months. He warned him of the serious effect of any further breach, and told him that if lie continued along the-road he was taking he would finish up with a long term of imprisonment. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 10
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176A VALUELESS CHEQUE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 10
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