MAORI SENTENCED
Chief Justice’s Warning
By Telegraph—Press Association,
New I’lynioutli, May 24
A warning that if lie came before the court again he would be in danger of being declared a habitual criminal was given by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in (he Supreme Court this morning in sentencing Thomas Roberts, a Maori, aged 28, to 18 months’ hard labour for forgery, uttering and theft.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 203, 25 May 1938, Page 16
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66MAORI SENTENCED Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 203, 25 May 1938, Page 16
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