SUPREME COURT
SITTINGS AT GISBORNE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, June 19. At the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, three prisoners appeared for sentence. , ~ . Oliver George Howie for the theft of £l5O the property of the East Coast Acclimatisation Society was placed on probation for four years. Pekama Hunia, for carnal knowledge of a Maori girl fifteen years of age, was sentenced to three years’ probation, with special conditions. _ , Joseph Edwin Griffin, for Indecent assault on a child, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Kuka Haenga, who appeared on a retrial, was found guilty of forgery and uttering in connection with a will, and remanded for sentence until to-day. William Alexander Robertson, tor alleged theft of £64, the property of the hast Coast Rabbit Board, was found not guilty and acquitted, the jury not leaving the box.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 226, 20 June 1929, Page 11
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