PROBLEM CASE
Youth Before Court RETURNED TO TRAINING FARM "From early years you have given trouble and you have been a problem case since leaving school,” said Mr H. Morgan, S.M., to Noel James Wilson, aged 18, whose case had been heard at the Magistrate's Court. Timaru, last Monday and who yesterday was convicted and ordered to return to the Training Farm. On the second charge he was convicted and discharged. Wilson pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful means of support, and to a second charge that at Ashburton, on November 1. 1943, he knowingly supplied false information. He hired a rental car, signing a document on which he stated he was 21. Dealing with accused’s personal history, the magistrate pointed out that he had been placed in several jobs, but was found irresponsible. He had left them and then got into trouble.
“Yours is a case where strict discipline is required,” said the Magistrate “and after due consideration I have decided to send you back to the training farm. If you create further trouble you will probably be sent to prison. You should try to help people to help you, and you should realise that decency of conduct is expected of you.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22738, 12 November 1943, Page 6
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213PROBLEM CASE Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22738, 12 November 1943, Page 6
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