DISCIPLINE.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1287, 13 September 1910, Page 4

DISCIPLINE.

STERN PROBATION FOR A DRUNKARD. (PER I'IIESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, September 13. Ono of the prisoners who appeared before tbe Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) for sentence at the Supremo Court this afternoon was Edward R. Crawford, a young man found guilty of perjury. The accused said he had nothing to say as to why sentence should not be passed. His Honour said prisoner had fallen, doubtless entirely through drink. He was young, and his Honour intended to give him a chance by placing him under probation for two years, but this would be subject to certain strict conditions — namely, that during the first twelve' months prisoner should not leave his house after 8 o'clock at night without the probation officer's consent. Further, ho must not, during the full term of his probation, visit a hotel, neither should he drink intoxicating liquors nor smoke, aud he must consent to the issue of a prohibition order. If the prisoner desired to redeem himself, this was his.last chance.