Magistrate’s Decisions

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 11

Magistrate’s Decisions

Sir, —I see in your Police Court column report that a man was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment “for being found asleep in the Botanical Gardens at 3.10 a.m. on Saturday.” It is difficult to comment upon this without becoming explosive. more particularly when one reads that when the man expressed a desire to appeal agdinst this punishment he was told he could do so on depositing the usual securities. As if a man who sleeps in the Gardens had any securities. In case the man has not the “usual securities” —and I, for one, have no idea what thev are—l suggest that a shilling fund might provide them. To throw the matter into an even more vivid light, we have as the next item in the column a report of a man fined £5 for assault upon a subnormal little girl.—l am, etc.. TOM. Lyall Bay, January 23.