WAIHI BOYS' ESCAPADE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VIII, Issue 2471, 8 February 1909, Page 3

WAIHI BOYS' ESCAPADE

COMMITTED TO TRAINING FARM,

Special to the Daily Telegraph. AUCKLAND, this day,

Tho two Waihi youngsters, Richard Thomas and Leslio Green, whose travels through New Zealand down as far as Timaru were recently recounted in tho Press, appeared in tho Juvenile Court on Saturday morning, charged with the theft of a shirt valued at 4s Gd. Both lads tearfully pleaded guilty, and wero committed to tho Wororoa Training Farm, near Levin. From tho ovi.denco for the police, tho boys appear to have had quite an enjoyable trip back from Timaru, where tho polico had been instructed by tho parents as to their return homo. Tho littlo follows, each 14 years but looking- very much younger, got as far as Obakiine on the Main Trunk line, and thou came on to Auckland without eloigning to observe tho regulation that a ticket must be purchased for a railway journey. They were found by tho guard when Hearing Auckland, but left tho train before Nowmarket was reached, and came into Auckland by tram. The incident which resulted in their appoarance before the Polico Court took place on their arrival hero.