BOY'S ESCAPADE.
[Feb Press Association.] AUCKLAND. December 7. A Wellington boy, thirteen years old, started out from his home with _ £25, without his parents' knowledge, visited Napier and proceeded thence- by train to Auckland. Ho took rooms at a boarding-house, informing the landlady that his ioother would arrive in two or three days. He spent a good deal of money in fancy goods. The landlady, growing suspicious, communicated with the police. He was arrested as a child not under proper control. The sum of £lO was then in his possession. At the Police Court to-day he was. remanded to enable arrangements to be made with his parents in regard to his future control.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11254, 7 December 1914, Page 6
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