COLLECTING BIRDS WAS HIS HOBBY.
YOUTH STOLE BANTAM AT WELLINGTON ZOO. (Special to the “Star.”) WELLINGTON, April 30. The clanger of being obsessed by any one particular hobby was exemplified in Court yesterday when a youth of nineteen, Norman Hawthorn, pleaded guilty to stealing ten pigeons valued at £l, the property of H. A. Bode. The Probation Officer said be thought accused was more effeminate than criminal. Ilis great hobby was collecting birds and he went about all over the place looking for them. He took a great fancy to a bantam at the Zoo, with the result that when he left the bantam left with him. “I suggest that he pe given probation, but not unless he is instructed to give up the hobby of collecting birds,” said the officer.” On cue occasion accused had a pet canary, and when his father objected ‘to it he left home.” For the police it was stated that another lad would be charged in the Children’s Court with the offence relating to the pigeons. This boy was not the ringleader, but was under Hawthorn’s influence. Tfye Magistrate adopted the rodrsc proposed by the Probation Officer.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18143, 30 April 1927, Page 4
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