FIRST OFFENDERS.
PROBATION AND SUPPRESSION OF NAMES. OPINIONS OF OFFICIALS. Before admitting a youth to probation on a charge of theft from his employer at the Magistrate s Court at Manaia this morning, the magistrate, Mr. R. W. Tate S.M., asked Sergeant Henry if he considered that the case would be met by granting probation. The sergeant agreed, in view of the feet that the accused person intended residing near a town in which a probation officer was stationed. Fie said that there was no doubt that the granting of probation proved very good when the accused person remained under the supervision of the officer, but was useless in case when the person resided sufficiently far away as to be out of touch. - An application for the suppression ol the accused’s name was made by counsel, but this the magistrate refused. He said that if an offender s name was suppressed it would be impossible to grant probation, as this would reduce the punishment for the offence very considerably, and the accused person would be too leniently .•dealt with.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 9
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179FIRST OFFENDERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 9
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