WOMEN SENT TO GAOL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 December 1933, Page 9

WOMEN SENT TO GAOL

*• SHOPLIFTING IN CITY TERM OF SEVEN HAYS (E? Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 2. Three women were sent to gaol today by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., for shoplifting. They were Airs Annie Eveline Snowden” aged 29, for stealing a bathing costume, Mrs Efthel Alice Garrick, aged 23, for stealing shoes, and Margaret Ann Robinson, for stealing sheets and shoes. Snowden was stated to have three children. Garrick lias no children, but is in bad health. In sentencing the .three to seven days’ imprisonment the magistrate remarked: ‘‘Probation doesn’t seem to stop these women. They come here and try to justify themselves by saying they have had bad health or a number of children. None of them can pay a fine. What am Ito do with them? During the last week there have been two or three similar eases. Thev are getting too common.” After passing sentence he said: We’ll see if that will stop it for a month or so.” Turning to Major Gordon of the Salvation Army, who is the female probation officer, he said: “Now you can look after the children of Mrs Snowden.”