FAILURE TO PROVIDE FOR SMALL GIRL
MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR TWELVE MONTHS
(New Zealand Press Association) , 1T , , AUCKLAND, May 19. I cannot help feeling that had the prisoner the normal feelings and reactions of a man in his position he would have taken steps which would have resulted in the child. being spared.” This statement-was made by Mr Justice Stanton in the Supreme Court to-day when Williams Smith Hutchison, aged 26, a mill worker, appeared for sentence for failing to provide a three-year-old girl with the necessaries of life at Rawene. Northland.
Defence counsel for Sinclair said the prisoner was an assisted British immigrant from Scotland. He was ignorant his obligations and the condition of the child. The prisoner had ended his association with the child’s mother. His Honour said that the offence was serious and the conseauences had been serious. In view of the circumstances under which the offence arose and the probable ignorance of the prisoner, the sentence would be only 12 months’ reformative detention.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26117, 20 May 1950, Page 2
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