LATEST N.Z. NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 11

LATEST N.Z. NEWS

EDUCATION COSTS (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, this day. ( Replying to a deputation of the Wei lington East Girls' College Parents' Association the Hon. 11, A. Wright said it seemed to him that an alteration in piolicy was needed to ensure that pupils should remain sufficiently long in secondary schools to derive benefit from their instruction.

The Minist-er was complaining of the cost of secondary' schools to tho detriment of primary schools, and said he was coming to the conclusion that there should bo some guarantee of a stay at a secondary school for at least two year's. The demands be was now getting for hostels and increased accommodation were such that- tho present grant, big as it, was, was only half what would be necessary if he wen/ to accede to thera

SENTENCE OF A YOUTH WELLINGTON, this day. A youth, Arthur David Horace Porter, appeared before Mr. Justice Alpers- for sentence for breaking and entering ami lb eft at Eketahuna. Mr. Parry, for the prisoner, said he was very overgrown for his age, being only 17, ai:d 6ft. tall. He- appeared overgrown physically, but was not developed mentally. He- characterised Porter's actions as those of a kleptomaniac. Counsel said he stole a packet of cigarettes, not to smoke, but for the picture. The* other thefts were of .small ariiclea. Counsel agreed probation was out of tiro question, and submitted that in the best interests of the lad he should be detained in a Borstal institution for as short a term as possible.

His Honor sa.id the duration of the term rested in the hands of (ho Minister. A lad! of the prisoner's age should be kept for a considerable time in order that the. training he got ha&2 an effect on him. In sentencing that the prisoner bo detained for a period not exceeding two years, His Honor said he wanted to impress on Porter that he was not being sent to prison. The institution was partly a school, a, place where he would be put to work, which he hoped he wouhl find interesting.

PROBATION GRANTED CHRISTCIUURCH, this day. Probation was granted William Francis Halliburton, of Ashburton, when he came up for sentence to-day for receiving £152 18s lid, and failing to account for it, and for stealing £6C4 15s 7d front Mrs. N. S. McArthur. Mr. Justice Stringer said the case gave him much anxiety. He believed that Halliburton had not intended dishonestly to appropriate the moneys, and would have repaid except for the failure of his business, resulting from the slump in land values. The judge imposed special conditions that he pay the cost of the, prosecution within three months from date, and thereafter that he mak« restitution of the full amount as soon as possible.

A PRACTICE CONDEMNED christ'church, this day. "f think 1 ought to comment on the practice of two people handling a car and neither knowing what the other intends doing in regard to Hie gears, speed, etc.," said the coroner at the inquest on Mrs. Matilda Featherston, who wan killed at Sumner on October 24, He returned an open verdict that the woman met her death through being crushed against a monument by a car driven jointly by Henry Noa! and William John Duff.

ALLEGED MAIL BAG THEFT CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A young man was arrested this morning in Obristehurch on a charge of having stolen a mail bag. The theft is alleged to have occurred a few days ago, the mail being in. transit from Waimuto to Christchurch. The man was employed as a mail sorter at the Christchurch office.