SUPREME COURT
SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND
[BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, May 17.
A Chinaman named Charlie Lee, was found guilty of defrauding his fellowcountrymen by falsely representing that he could obtain extensions of their permits to stay in this country, and wassent© need by Mr Justice' Macgregor to three months’ imprisonment on, each of four charges, sentences to bo concurrent. He said that it was obvious that Chinese had been brought to work here in some irregular way. which he was at a less to understand. Thus. Mervyn May, aged 22, for an offence against a girl' aged 14, was (Sentenced to two years’ borstal treatment. Alexander Lenne. aged 26, for an attempted offence? against a girl under 15 years of age, was given twelve months’ reformative detention.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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127SUPREME COURT Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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