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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17576, 29 June 1925, Page 1

STAYED OUT LATE.

GIRL’S BAD HABITS. DANCE HALLS AND BACH. The sari story of a young girl’s Ih'c was revealed in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr IT. Y. Wicklowson, S.M., when Mary Bertie Styles, seventeen years of age, appeared on remand on a charge of the theft of a sum of money from Ilenrv John Styles, Montreal Street, Sydenham. The Magistrate said that the probation officer recommended that the girl should be admitted to probation, during which period she was to be detained in a proper corrective home. < hicf-Dctective Gibson said that tlie girl had been medically examined. As a result of the report he had to soy that tho girl, during any period of detention, could not be allowed to associate with the other inmates. The Magistrate said that it was one of the saddest cases that had come before the Court for some time. The girl was a domestic servant, but could not keep her positions, and did not seem to like work. Flic had already been an inmate of Ft Anne's Home for two years. Accused was in the habit of frequenting dance-halls, as a result of which she returned home ut all hours of the morning. There had also been some trouble over a bach at New Brighton. lie would order her retention in the Borstal Institute for women for three years.