COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 August 1926, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

HARD LABOUR FOR PERJURY

(liY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TIAIARU, Aug. 4. At the Supreme, Court- to-day, Victor Harris was sentenced by Air Justice Adams to twelve months’ hard labour on a charge of perjury.

REF 0R AI ATI VIE TREATMENT

IMPOSED.

DUNEDIN, Aug. 4. At the Supreme Court, Hugh James Collins, with a previous conviction for receiving stolen goods, was sentenced to five years’ reformative treatment.

CHARGES OF FORGERY

SAVINGS BANK WITHDRAWAL

PALMERSTON N., Aug. 4

In the Supreme Court, Edith Rosina Smith was charged with conspiring with John Joseph Hansen and Neils Martin Olsen, by fraudulent means, to defraud the Postmaster-General of £159; also with making a false post office withdrawal receipt for the same sum; also that, knowing a post office withdrawal receipt to be forged, she dealt with the same as if it were genuine.

AUCKLAND SENTENCES’.

AUCKLAND, Aug. 4. Prisoners sentenced at the Supreme Court hy Mr Justice Stringer included :

James Fitzherbert and Cyril Southwood. two new arrivals, three months’ gaol for breaking a window and theft of rings. ■ Thomas Herbert Ellison, forgery, three months’ jirobation. Mathilda; Lecliwark, charged l with a false declaration to the Registrar of Births, was discharged.