STOLE FROM FATHER

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 642, 21 December 1932, Page 10

STOLE FROM FATHER

Juvenile Dealt With by Magistrate. Charged with the theft of a sovereign pendant, the property of his father, a seventeen-year-old boy, whose name was suppressed, was convicted and placed on probation for a term of three years by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. Chief-Detective Carroll said the case had unusual features. The boy had got out of control, and had been away from his home for a week. During that period he returned one night and stole the pendant from his father’s veaistcoat. Later he pawned it. The charge was made by his father in order to bring the boy to a realisation of his position.

WELCOME NEWS. Elderly Man Receives £BO from Savings Bank. (Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND, December 21. Welcome news was received by Mr If. W. Cleland, sixty years of age. of Gordonton, when he learned that a forgotten sum of money placed to his credit in the Post Office Savings Bank by relatives when he was eleven years old was available for collection, together with accumulated interest. The amount now totals about £BO.