SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24744, 8 December 1945, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

FRIDAY (Before his Honour Mr Justice Northcroft.) PRISONERS SENTENCED William George Davison, a motor mechanic, and Allan Chisholm Swinton a labourer, appeared for Sentence on two joint charges of breaking, entering, and theft. Davison also appeared for sentence" oh a further similar charge To which he had pleaded guilty. -His Honour said that the offences were committed while Swinton and Davison were fugitive after escaping from the Borstal institution. He had taken into account that the offences were in some degree incidental to offences for which the prisoners still had to be. punished. Swinton and Davison were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative with thenpresent sentences.

John Francis Samuel Keen, a farm labourer, aged 31, appeared for sentence on a charge of theft of a wireless, receiving set valued at £36, at Temuka.

His Honour said that Keen had a very bad record, and that he had been warned that he would be declared an habitual criminal in 1941. since when he had committed minor offences. A second similar warning would be recorded. Keen was sentenced to six - months' imprisonment with hard labour. William Oliver Nelson, a fruit hawker, aged 29, pf Halswell, for whom Mr J. K. Moloney appeared, was sentenced to reformative detention for a period of 12 months on a charge of indecent assault on a female. Nelson had pleaded guilty to the charge in the Magistrate's Court. Mr. Moloney said that Nelson had had three falls as a steeplechase rider and had twice suffered concussion. The falls had adversely affected Nelson's health. ' Petitions for Divorce Decrees nisi with leave to be made absolute after three months, were granted on the grounds stated in the following petitions for divorce : Separation.—Alice Greer, of Christchurch, against Frank Neal Greer, carpenter, of Christchurch; Harry Traver.se Huggett, electrician, of Christchurch. against Winifred Elizabeth Hiiggetf, of Mackay, Queensland; Douglas Carlisle Sullivan, lorry driver, of Christchurch, against Anne Mary Margaret Sullivan, of Christchurch; Ethel Clara Stevens, of Christchurch, against Frederick William Stevens, company director, of Christchurch: Charles Harold Chambers, labourer, of Christchurch. against Dorothy Rita Chambers, of Christchurch; Winifred D'Eganneh, of Christchurch. against Herbert D'Eganneh. shopkeeper, of Christchurch; Patricia Tutton, of Christchurch. against Jack Francis Tutton. flourmiller. of Rangiora. .Adultery.—Gerald Daniel Noonan, fishmonger, of Christchurch, against Elva Margaret Noonan, of Rotorua, Noel Goodwin, of Wellington, being cited as co-re-spondent; Benjamin Charles Rogers, soldier, of Christchurch, against Matarlna Dulcie Rogers, of Christchurch; Edwin Albert Dowie, dredge worker of Ikamatua, against Jean Sylvie Dowie, of Kaikoura, Desmond Tyson, bulldozer driver, of Kaikoura, cited as co-respondent. Desertion.—Arthur Robert Carter, cycle dealer. Christchurch, against Edith Violet Carter, of: Christchurch; Stanley Greygoose, labourer, of Rakaia, against Irene Mary Greygoose. qf Pahautani; - Mabel Edith Puklowski, of Kaikoura, against Renata Charles Puklowski. contractor of Kaikoura.

„ Failure to comply with decrees for restitution of conjugal rights.—Hinemoa Ursula Ida McNab, of Christchurch, against Robert George Colin McNab, formerly of Christchurch, now a civil servant, of Cairo, Joyce Emily Payton. of Christchurch, against Joseph Paykt_on < dealer, of Christchurch; Eiro] David Johnston, theatre manager, of Christcv4T, / a ? ains * Irene Meteren Johnston, of Christchurch: Reginald Edwird Robertw"}l b «»tniaker, of Timaru, against Elizabeth Mae Robertson, of Dunedtn. Orders for restitution of conjugal rights ytl re * , Sj de *P tne following petitions:— Albert Edward Titheridge.- fitter, of Christcnurcn, against Margaret. Mary Titheridge. of Christchurch; Arthur "Oswald Evtes, printer, of Christchurch, against Florence Rose Eyles; Harold Edward Gillum. jeweller, of Christchurch. against Olive Mary Gillum, of Hokitika; Neville Raymond „ » e !' '"France agent, of Christchurch, against Laurel Jane Cowles.