PRISONERS SENTENCED
A sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed by Mr. Justice Johnston in the Supreme Court on Tuesday on Manu Kaiwai, labourer, aged 19, who had pleaded guilty at Gisborne to a charge of breaking and entering and theft by night. .
Harold Richard Andrew Yardley, painter, aged 27 (Mr. G. C. Kent), was sentenced to 12 months' reformative detention for indecent assault on a male. His Honour said he would recommend an inquiry under the Mental Defectives Act into the prisoner's mental condition with a view, if the result so indicated, to his admission to a mental hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 13
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100PRISONERS SENTENCED Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 13
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