ONE YEAR’S JAIL
* Negligent Driving Causing Death By Telegraph—Press Association. New Plymouth, August 14. Found guilty of negligent driving, causing death, Samuel Edward Hawke was sentenced in the Supreme Court this morning to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour and his driving licence was cancelled for - ten years. His Honour said he thought that two years would have been a fitting sentence, but he had halved it in view of the jury’s strong recommendation for leniency. Gordon Pono Stewart Smith, who pleaded guilty to forgery and uttering an entry at the Winter Show, was fined £5, with a month in which to pay. William Ernest Hewins, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft of jewellery valued at £333, was sentenced bo reformative detention not exceeding two years.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 274, 15 August 1936, Page 7
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129ONE YEAR’S JAIL Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 274, 15 August 1936, Page 7
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