The discovery of Maori and European boys aged 14 and 13 wearing masks, and one dressed in a black cape in an East,Coast motor garage at night was described to Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Children’s Court at Gisborne. The boys admitted that they were imitating a character in a serial film. The proprietor of the garage surprised the boys at 11 p.m. and took them to the police station. Papers on his office desk had been disturbed and the table telephone overturned. The boys were placed under the supervision of the child welfare officer for two years on a charge of breaking and entering the garage and the theft of a bunch of keys valued at ss.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4491, 17 October 1941, Page 8
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