SENT TO BORSTAL
YOUNG MAN'S CRIMES
Commenting that the prisoner had not taken advantage of the opportunity afforded him in May last when he was granted probation, the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) today ordered Herbert Henry Ash, aged 20, a 'machinist, to be detained in a Borstal institution for three years, on charges of breaking and entering with intent to steal, and breach of probation.
"The sooner you learn that this kind of life you are leading is unprofitable, to say the least of it, the better for you," said his Honour. "It will lead you to an in-and-out-of-goal career for the balance of your life. It is quite plain that you require somi strict discipline." .-■•■•
"After his sentence in the Supreme Court, Ash was convicted and' discharged in the Magistrate's Court on several charges of theft, Detective-Ser-geant P. Doyle stating that he had launched out on'a career of crime at the end of last1 year. ' . ,
One first offender for drunkenness was convicted and fined 5s by ._ Mr. Robert Cashman, J.P., in the Mount Cook Police Court this morning.
One first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S,M., in the Magistrate's Court today.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 4
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