Chiltern Police Court.-- On Monday, June 9, the following cases were heard:
Truant officer v Jeremiah Slaven: Not sending his boy to school; Mrs. Slaven
appeared and said the boy was 14-1/2 years old. Slaven had been fined on 6th March
last at Wangaratta. In defence, it was said the boy was big for his age and was
at work on the Wahgunyah line. The boy had since been sent to a night school. Fined 6s.
Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Victoria, Australia), June 12, 1879.