UNUSUAL CASE
CHINESE AS “RECEIVER” GOODS CE COMPATRIOT (P.A.) DUNEDIN, May 2 "it is unusual to find one ol your race before the court for an offence against your feliow countrymen " said Mr Jus tice Kennedy in the Supreme Court today in sentencing Wong Wai Fai. a Chines market gardener, to one year's reformative detention on a charge ol receiving money and goods stolen from ether market gardeners. Other prisoners sentenced were' William Albert Harrington, aged 43. 1 armor, two and a half years’ relorma five detention for attempted rape, the woman in the case being his motherin law, aged 70; George Wilfrid Charles Hogg aged 22 seaman 15 months’ re formative detention for bigamy; George Yorath Legge. aged 41. hairdresser, two years' reformative detention lor incest; Veronica Doris Luscombe. aged 49. one year’s probation fer the theft of public monev while l acting as a country post-mistress. *
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 6
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