SUPREME COURT
SENTENCE AT AUCKLAND. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 24. “The ofi'ence you committed against your sister is a most disgusting one, said Air. Justice Herdman to a AfaorJ, Hohepa Tanu I’omare, who had been found guilty of incest- ut A\ hangarei. “If you were a European I would have given you a. long sentence, but you are a Maori, and I suppose 1 must consider your jn-culiar ideas of morality. I will send you to gaol, for a short period. You will be, imprisoned for six months with hard labour. The prisoner asked his Honour to give him probation. , “No, I will not do lhat,” said his Honour. Other sentences imposed by Air. Justice Herdman were:—James Frances McAlullan, breaking, entering and theft, three months; Norman Stewart Ward breaking, entering and theft, three years probation; Andrew Peter Jensen, forgery, six months’ reformative treatment at the end of his present sentence of two years’ relorinative detention; Alfred Hinton, four charges of forgery and uttering, 18 months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1922, Page 5
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