MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Shirley Robertson, alias Raku Raku, waitress, 23, who pleaded guilty in the | Magistrate's' Court today to a charge of escaping from the Borstal institution at Point Halswell on May 13, had previously escaped last February and had received three months' hard labour as punishment, said Senior-Ser-geant G; Paine. That term expired yesterday.. Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., after remarking that most of the trouble with, esciapees from the institution appeared to be with Auckland girls, sentenced her to a further six months' Borstal detention, to be served at the] expiry of her present term. Douglas William Pulford, carpenter, 28, pleaded guilty to the theft of a potato peeler, a potato chipper, and an enamel basin, of a total value of £12, and also to a charge of using the name of Douglas Williams, a name other than that by which he was known at the coming into force of the Change of Name Emergency Regulations, 1939. Mr. W. G. L. Mellish, who appeared for the accused, stated that he had taken the goods from a fish and chips shop, as he claimed that he had not been paid for work done on behalf of the proprietor, and had sold them for £9 11s. On the first charge he was convicted and ordered to come ■up for sentence within 12 months if called upon, a condition being the.restitution of £12, and on the second he was fined £2. : ;■•- Yesterday Gerard Neil Gillies, wharf labourer, 46, pleaded not guilty before Mr. Stout to a charge of theft of two damask table cloths and 30 damask serviettes, the property of the phion Steam Ship Co., and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.