1 boy
Placed under supervision 3 girls 4 girls
7 boys 7 boys
Admitted to probation 1 boy 6 boys
Admonished and discharged or otherwise
dealt with 3 30
Dismissed in Children's Court ... 3
Acquitted in Magistrate's Court ... 1
Acquitted in Supreme Court ... 3
(One boy appeared in both Supreme Court and Magistrate's Court; thus
showing 60 persons dealt with.)


=(2) Cases in Other Districts=

It cannot be supposed that sexual misbehaviour was confined to the Hutt
district. Similar environmental conditions obtain in other districts. It
was reliably stated in evidence at Wellington that if a girl elsewhere
were to carry her story to the police similar revelations would be made
there.

In Auckland matters came to the knowledge of the Committee which do
cause grave concern. Here again the Committee was not engaged on a
fact-finding mission, but was seeking to evaluate the evidence in a
broad way.

It appears that, a few weeks before the Hutt cases were reported, the
headmaster of an intermediate school informed the police of a case of
theft of money by a schoolboy who was found to have £22 in his wallet.
In the course of their inquiries into this the police were started on a