IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11492, 20 November 1931, Page 3

IN THE COURTS

ALLEGED INSULTING LAN GUAGE.

UNION SECRET Alt V REMANDED (Press Association' CHRISTCHURCH, Nov 10Charles Edward Baldwin, a trail-- * union svePilarv, of Christehurca, was charged this morning with u>iiij; insulting language in Cathedral Square on November 8. Ho was remanded until Novelnher 'M. SUPREME COURT SESSION. PRISONERS. EUR SENTENCE, i Press Association.; NEW PLYMOUTH, N«v. 10. In the Supreme Court, sentences were imposed this lnornuig us lows: George Edward Clout, a butcher. convicted of six c-iargcs ot breaches of the Bankruptcy Act. nine months’ hard labor: Henry Ernest Ferguson. who pleaded guilty m the lower court to four charges of forgery and uttering. nine months’ imprisonment, following lU months reformative detention cu each charge the sentences to be concurrent; Francis Peter Harrison, who pleatieu guilty in the lower court to breakiug land enuring and theit, two veins' detention at a Borstal institution. FORGERIES TOO EASY. UXBI'STN'ESSLIKE TRA DKSMp.n SUPPLY CHEQUES. (Press Association.* NEW PLYMOUTH. Nov. ID. In sentencing a prisoner this moi n ing tor uttering valueless cheques at New Plymouth, Air. Justice Rceu condemned the tradesmen who had sold him bL'ink, choqutw, although his identity was not known. ]t was a pity the law did no) subject to a line persons acting thus. It might have lieen considered " bother such action should not render a man liable for damages by those on whom the forgery was. made. Such facilities made forgery too easy.