AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4218, 15 February 1921, Page 1

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT.

CARELESS BUSINESS MEN REBUKED. (IVr Press Association.) Auckland, February 12. ("or tho first time in Auckland the suppression ul (he names of two licensed was ordered at the Supremo Court- by Air .Justice Stringer. A man and a woman were charged with having made ial.--e statements in re£istorniji oii e 0 ( t, H ir children. On counsel applying for tile suppression of the names, the Judye said there had men a breach of the law, but the police Jiad no discretionary pow c >r.s ~o it had been left to him to look at the summmliie; ciroumFianees. It \va« as venial offence us could |x>.«ibly be committed. He lined the man -(Os costs, but no line was imposed on Uiwoman.

A sentence of 12 months' imprisonn.ent was ~„«.«! 01, Thomas Davis. who pleaded fcmlt.v to hein K concern. P 1 '» the tli.lt of electrical good, !'"'" '",'! "'arehousos, ami on Arthur Ernest Loham, who was found guilty ol similar oltencos arising mil of the same burglaries. "These tinii's deserve to lose their money b t >ra.usc of the careless «mv in winch, they seem to manarro their business, said the Judge, dealini' with John Andrew Riddell (22), w | lo ■ obtained £p, from the local stock firms by false pr e tenees. lli s Honour a<ided that suck Imsincos methods offered an incentive to crime. Accused was placed on three yearn' probation and was ordered 'to Pa y back >', instalments half the amount lost i'.v the two firms concerned. Leonard ('. Canuonf, mitted forcing and uttering „ cheque at Hamilton. His Honour placed accused on probation, and prohibited him Irom racecourses : ,,id billiard saloons. I his. said 'His Honour, was another instance of gross cavele«=-nes-s on the part of people dealing with cheques. .Accused had simple walked into a storekeeper's premises '."" *■': ' " ,( 'IP on which he had written a customer's name How people kent out of |),e Bankruptcy t oiin wh-n th 0 v conducted business in that way he could u..| understand. Uilliam Edwards, for breakiiw am! enlerin- „ dwell in™ at Daroavllle and th-ft, was s-ni-nced to three' iiiouths' imprison nt. I'i'oliation was ordered in n number of cases involving various offence*.