AUTOMATIC TEMPTATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3307, 28 August 1911, Page 7

AUTOMATIC TEMPTATION.

AN ALDERMAN’S SEVERE CRITICISM. The morality of automatic sweetmeat machines in public places was severely criticised at the Juvenile Court sitting at the Guildhall, City of London, when a small boy was charged with stealing chocolate from a machine at Monument Station by inserting tin dies. An official of the Metropolitan District Rai' nay complained bitterly of the raids made on these machines Dy children. In this particular machine, he said, twenty discs were found, and ten packets of chocolate were missing. Mr. Alderman Hanson: I say it is very wrong that these machines should bo exposed as they are to become a temptation to boys of this age. I do hope that those responsible will take note of this word; of warning. I think they are responsible to a great extent for the continuance of a temptation that should not exist. lam very sorry that the great railways, and others, who have these automatio machines on their premises are not more patricular in exacting that they should not be capable of manipulation in the manner described to-day. The boy was handed over to his father, who was bound over to produce him if called upon within a year.