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NEW CHILDREN'S COURT MODERN COURAGE
IN ENGLAND
NO DOCK, NO WITNESS BOX, NO NONSENSE, BUT CONSIDERABLE HUMANITY
By J. L. HODSON
Justice, tempered with true kindliness, No nonsense, 'but considerable humanity. That was my impression of the first court which sat under the new Child- ren's Act at Islington Town Hall.
The court was not much like a court. No dock, no witness box. The two magistrates. Mr. John H. Harris, of Thames Police Court, who, with his aquiline features, might be a parzon or A school master, and Mrs. Girling, a former Mayoresa of Shoreditch (a woman must be on the Bench) sat at a harse-shoq table.
Evidenco was given from, a "lectern" by (in one instance) a policeman in brown shoes and blue overcoat.
On one side of the room Bat County Council special officers, men of dignity and middle-age, and on the other probation officers of the girl guide leader or scout- master type,
The Health Factor
Mr. Harris said in some opening remarks that the Court started a new era. The incident that struck ime most was when he told a girl's mother: "Your child's teeth want attending to. Health has very often a great deal to do with it, you know."
to
courts if they are in bad associa tion, moral danger, or beyond control.
THE KING AND
THE V.C.
London.
The fact that the King himself | examines every recommendntion for the award of the Victoria Cross was revealed by Lord Harewood, husband of the Princess Royal, at the second re-union of Yorkshire V.C.s nt Beaston, Beeds.
the
WAR
Lord Harewood said that The magistrates are empowered reason why the V.C. had remained to take a child from the custody because its award was so rare and
ahend of all other honours of its parents and place it in was made only after the strictest, custody of an approved school or
relative, or under supervision at scrutiny. home, without any criminal charge He was glad to be able to say being made.
that personal courage was alive to- Mr. Frank Whitbread, vice day, but the amount of courage and chairman of the Society, made it self-sacrifice needed to win the clear that the N.S.P.C.C. regarded Victoria Cross was exceptional and the Act as a great advance. If the rare. It had been even more dif- Society had not been satisfied that ficult to win the V.C. in the Great there were obvious anfeguards War, than in provious war. against the parents being arbi- irarlly deprived of their children, they would have opposed it,
These safeguards he enumerated as the right of immediate appeal from the Chlidren's Courts to the Quarter Sessions, and the sub- jection of magistrates' decisions to Home Office supervision.
A number of officials scrutinised every case of recommendation for the coveted Cross, and then It went before the King in person.
The King himself, Lord Hare- wood added, had told him that he personally examined overy recom mendation before he allowed it to go through.
Mr. William J. Elliott, the direc tor of the Society, said there was no Intention of flooding the new "He is very jentous, if I may say courts with chaes. Proceedings so," said Lord Harewood, "to guard were held in camera only to en- the Cross with great caro." sure a degree of intimacy" in "the "It has become, the fashion in child's interest.
modern times to look upon per-
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Mr. Elliott admitted that the sonal courage as a virtue of com. cost of appeal to the Quarter paratively little importance; in fact Sesalons would be at least £20, a thera is even a school, which seems sum prohibitive in the ense
of to consider personal courage
vice," another poor families. There was still, he almost
ho continued. pointed out, direct access to the "But I am glad to think that it is Home Secretary, and he gave an a very small section, although it is Assurance that the Home Office Joud-voiced."
such to Fald every attention lettera,
He pointed out parent that her daughter had a flat foot, and that one of her eyes was defective. It will be cus. tomary under this
Act, 1 new gather, for the magistrates to inform the parents of defects dis- closed by the medical report. It is an important innovation.
Another is that a parent or guardian must be present in Court and has power to cross-examine SET-BACK IN LAHORE
witnesses.
Three Boys in a Kiosk The first case was of three boys charged with stealing from a tele- phone kiosk an earpiece, din phragm, washer and screw, worth Ad. "Were you in this" asked the clerk (n friendly young man hardly out of his twenties) of one boy, obviously endeavouring to make him feel at home; and when Mr. Harris spoke to them he used their christened names,
The spokesboy said they enter ed the klask to have a bit of fun telephone the operator and ask him the time.
FLYING CLUBS IN INDIA
Bombay. Flying is still in its infancy in India.
The number of flying clubs in India is about a dozen or even less.
The Bombay Flying Club is just
Lord Harewood declared that he was certain that 999 men out of 1,000, if asked what honour they would have above all others, would choose the Victoria Cross-Renter!
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An action in which Mrs. Kath-chill five years old and has a member-leen Olive Pinder Thompson, of ship of only 270, according to the infest annual report of the Club. Mr. Reginald Purbrick, Conserva- The operations of the Club during live M.P. for the Walton Division the year under, review resulted in a of Liverpool, for alleged lireach loss of Rs. 4,656 (over £350/-).
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Labore, on the other hand, hns done with flying, at any rate for
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Mr. Normun Birkett, K.C.. and. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, K.C., instruct- Mr. Harris: But that would cost liquidation and its affairs have Son and Company, have been The Punjab Flying Club is undered by Mesars. Michael Abrahama,
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The magistrates decided there evidence of stealing. "Now you three lads were CX- tremely stupid," said Mr. Harris "It is poor fun for the chap at the other end of the telephone who is husy all day answering calls. Go away and keep out of telephone boxes."
Two girls who had been found guilty of stealing from Wool- worth's came Into the room next. What troubled Mr. Harris gravely was that although it was plain, he said, that they had worked to gether, each had since sald: "It wasn't me, it was the other girl." "It is a rotten thing to go ant say that," he said. "Far better is be straightforward." He spok
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an indignant parent apenks when rebuking his children;
The girl he admonished severe ly; and If they "did it again" the would be "sent away." But they The must forget about the case. Frobation officer would look after them. "She will make a frien of you, if you will make a friend of her."
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A Dimeult Prahlem The third boy WIAM IL dificult problem: he had stolęs wages, nid taken a trip to the Isls, of Wight. This boy had been stealing since 10 years old, wa under average Intelligence.
The mather, with whom Mr. Harris discussed the case, though!, with him, her son would be better away at "a school," and to a schoot he was sent.
Formerly, I understand, it was usual to fix a term of three years or until the age of 19 was reached Now the period is to be left to the discretion of the headmaster of the, school and the Secretary of State,
REPLY TO CRITICS |N.S.P.C.C. & Safeguards for Parents
Answers to criticisms of the new Children and Young Persons Act' were given by officials of the N.S.P.C.C. at a luncheon, under the chairmanship of Lord Ulls- water, at the Savoy Hotel recently, The Act gives power to local authorities, constables or author laod persons (the Society's in- spectors come undor this category) to bring children before specint
come up before the High Court. - briefed by Mrs. Thompson.
Justice Bakshi Tekchand was told Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., and that Rs. 1,000 (5300/-) had been Mr. Harold Murphy, instructed by
Messrs. Oswald-Hickson-Collier- post on feasts."
"That's why the Club has gone and Co., will appear for MF. Pur-
said Justice brick. into liquidation," Tekchand amidst laughter.........
Mr. Purbrick, who was born in More than Rs. 1,000 (575/-) had Melbourne 66 years ago, hus res been "wasted on "advertisements." 'uresented the Walton Division' of said a member of the Club.
Liverpool since 1929. As a young Allegations of mismaungement man in Australin he was amateur were made in the open court, ac boxing and walking champton, cording to the Lahore correspond-fie is a keen sportaman, and his ent of the Evening News-Ren-yacht Zarà is well known in yacht-
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