PRISONERS SENTENCED
Three prisoners came before the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) for sentence yesterday. A Maori, Edward Henry, aged 23, ojj three charges of forgery was sentfhced to 18 months' reformative detention., He had previously been ad-1 mitted to probation for a similar offence. John Anderson Hislop, aged 19, on charges of breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to a period of two years' Borstal detention, his Honour remarking that a period of control and discipline was called for. "Although probation is recommended, it should not be assumed that the Court regards offences of this kind as otherwise than serious," said his Honour An ordering Gladys May Smith, vMo pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted bigamy, to come up for sentence if called upon within the next 12 months. Each case, he added, j had to be judged according to the cir-| cumstances, and in the present case it was unnecessary to impose a prison sentence. >> j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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