WORST BOY IN SCHOOL
COWARD REFUSED TO BOX LONDON, April Id. When a 16-year-old boy was brought before Southend .Juvenile Coyi-t to-day by the Edueulion Committee its a young person who needed care ami attention il was staled that lie was discharged from Port ishc-ad Nautical School in March. 110 was scut there for arson. Since leaving the .school lie had had various situations, bill by means of a mile alleged (o be from Ids mol her Inobtained til fs and went to Antwerp to look for work, lb- was. sent back. The I'rv. Leonard Bollard, chaplain of llic iinul i< iil schoiil. said tliere were 2(KI boys at Ibe school, and the defendant was the worst ease I hey had had. “lie is a coward. added the chaplain, ‘‘and nothing will induce him to go into the boxing-ring and fight, lie lias been foii'-ed into the ring after the whole school had boon punished for Ids mis deeds, bill lie would not light.'’ The boy. who said lie wanted to join tin- Air Force, was' remanded for throe weeks lor arnmgeineiils to bo made for him to go to a nautical school
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 12
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