IN THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 86, 6 December 1912, Page 6

IN THE COURTS.

j Two young men residing at Mount Albert were brought before dir. C. t . Kettle, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning, charged with unlawfully communicating wun a girl, an inmate of tho Auckland Industrial School, contrary to a provision of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908. Both pleaded guilty (states the ‘Star’). Miss Jackson, Principal of the School, explained that she had laid tho information as a warning to young men who were disposed to communicate with tho girls under hei charge, but she did not press for a penalty, as this was the first case of tho kind brought before the Court. His Worship told the two defendants that the Act, gave him power to impose a hue of £2O for the offence, which they had admitted, as communication with girls in industrial schools could not 1)0 allowed even when tho I girls were out at service. In future | cases a substantial penalty would I probably be imposed. Both defendants promised Tint to communicate again with the girl in question, or with any other inmate of the homo, and Mr. Kettle thereupon entered a conviction and ordered them to come before the Court when called upon.