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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 29, 3 August 1921, Page 6

It is customary when, prisoners come before the Supreme Court for sentence, if a prisoner desires to hand in a written statement to do so in Court. On Monday morning when a prisoner was asked at the Supreme Court in Chriatchurch if ha had anything to say, he replied that he had nothing to say in addition *to liis written statement. This was not in Court, but was ultimately produced by the prison authorities. •His Honour remarked that when prisoners prepared written statements they ought to bo in the hands of the Registrar. After he had read the statement, his Honour said that it contained statements that the Ashburton Borough Council ought to be acquainted with—it excused from blame any of prisoner's fellow-employees with the Borough Council, and especially one man in the Borough Council's employ. His Honour added that, this showed the necessity for prisoners' written statements being handed to the Registrar in time to be available when prisoners were being dealt with. The portion of (ho statement referred to by bis Honour is to be forwarded to the Ashburton Borough Council.