PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 8

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

TWO YEARS FOR BURGLAR.

PROBATION FOR MAORI REFUSED

"It appears that you have been in trouble on more than one occasion," said Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day- in passing sentence on Samuel Rattray, who had pleaded guilty to theft from a dwelling. Reports showed that Rattray wa3 at present serving a sentence of 12 months' reformative detention on a conviction for forgery. In addition, he had lately been convicted of theft. In the instance under review he had stolen from a dwelling house a pair of riding pants, a pair of leggings, and £27 in money. The Judge passed a sentence of six months' hard labour, to be followed by a period of reformative detention not exceeding 18 months. Tame Otene, a Maori youth, who had nothing to say for himself, was sentenced on a charge of breaking, entering, and theft at Rotorua, to undergo a period of reformative detention not exceeding 12 months. The Probation Officer did not recommend probation, as it would not be in prisoner's interests. He had not behaved satisfactorily, and bad spent most of his spare time hanging about billiard rooms.