SIR ROBERT STOUT'S COMMENTS ON EXTRAVAGANCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 5

SIR ROBERT STOUT'S COMMENTS ON EXTRAVAGANCE.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESB ASSOOUTION ) NAPIER, Aug. 27. James Donghi, for theft trom a dwelling at "Waipawa, was sentenced to three years' reformative treatment. James Corbett Murphy, alias Sullivan, was sentenced to four months' hard labor for misappropriating funds of the Seamen's Union. Sir Robert Stout said accused had been straightforward in the matter, but continued: "I don't know what is going to happen to the country if this extravagance goes on." Murphy had been in receipt at times of as much as £5 a week, and had saved nothing out of this after providing for his wife and four children. "The extravagance since the war is a disgrace to the community," added his Honor. Richard Dann was found not guilty of causing actual bqdily harm to a child struck by a motor car driven by accused. After the verdict, Sir Robert Stout remarked to the Crown Prosecutor: "I suppose you had better not bring any more cases for negligence in Napier."