SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20985, 13 October 1933, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED AT WELLINGTON 1 (PBKBS ASSOCIATION TELZOHAU.) WELLINGTON, October 12. i Prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court by his Honour Mr Justice Blair as follows:—Alfred Arthur Stanley, breaking, entering, and theft, breaking and entering with intent, four years; Bruce Anderson, jointly charged with Stanley, reformative detention not exceeding two years; William Greening, attempted breaking and entering, and breaking, entering, and theft at Wairoa, three months; Raymond Claude Hogg, five charges of breaking, entering, and theit at Hastings, and a charge of theft, at Napier, two years' hard labour, to be followed by reformative detention not exceed-1 ing three years, the sentence to be concurrent with a term now being servtjd. ThEge youths appeared for sentence for s:h offence against a female. His Hondur remarked on the difficulty in inflicting a suitable punishment. He considered it to be his duty to commit each accused to a Borstal institution for a term not exceeding two years. The accused, who were stated by counsel to have been already dealt with by a Maori tribunal at Wanganui and [ fined £ls each, were Toro Whakateka, John Ivan Ryder, and Patu Rongounui, of Wanganui. For forgery of a motor-driver's license Frederick Walter Perry was convicted and discharged and ordered to pay £1 Is costs. Perry had been stopped and ordered to produce a license, and next day he reported with one in which the date had been altered back some days. His Honour regarded the offence as an act of foolishness or thoughtlessness.