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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 2

On m-iny charges of theft, seven boys were arraigned before Mr S. E. MiiO.rthy, S.M.. in the J.-ivenile Court, Christehurch. The charges arose out of the recent cases of shop burglaries in and around the city. The Magistrate so id that there were three pauses for the position of these boys. First there wn.s lacli of home training, for which the Dareats alone wcr-. resporisibie. Then there Avas fcmancy; and several of these !.K>ys were very* backward in their

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