UNRULY GIRLS.
ARMY HOME TROUBLES. Tales of escape from, and insubordination at. the .Salvation Army Home wore told jn the Magistrate’s Court, before .Mr V. G. Day, 8.M., tin's morning. Maka Kaimoka, a Maori girl, pleaded guilty to a charge of having escaped from the Salvation Army Home. Senior-Sergeant CM minings said that the, accused hud escaped from the institution and taken two other girls with her. The others had not yet, been arrested. Accused had run away twice previously. A sentence of fourteen days’ imprisonment was imposed. Evelyn May Fluerty. alsoau inmate of the Salvation Army Home, was charged witli having been unruly in conduct. “ I don’t know about being unruly,” said .accused, when asked how she would plead. “I was trying to stick up for myself.” Tho matron of the Salvation Army Home said that the girl was most unruly and impudent, and the authorities were continually having trouble with her. Senior-Sergeant Cummings said that the girl was really incorrigible. Accused was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19800, 18 November 1919, Page 7
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