SUPREME COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

~.■ - _ -+— * AUCKLAND SESSION. (3Y TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 12. For the first time in Auckland the suppression of the names of two aoj gfused was ordered at the Supreme Court] iby Mr- Justice Stringer. A man andj ' a woman were charged with having j i made a false statement in registering' I one of four of their children. On coun- ! sel applying for suppression of their names, the Judge said there had' been j a breach of the law, but the police had no discretionary powers, so it had been j left to him to look at the surrounding circumstances. It was as venial an offence as oould possibly be committed.

, He fined' the man 40e and oOßts, but no fine was imposed on the woman. I Twelve months' imprisonment was ' passed on Thomas Davis, who pleaded guilty to being concerned in the theft of electrical goods from two warehouses., and on Arthur Ernest Cbbham who was found guilty of similar offences arising out of the same burglaries) Andrew Riddel (22),. who obtained £237 from local firms by false pretences,, was placed on three years' probation and .ordered to pay back by instalment half the amount lost by the" two firms concerned. Leonard C. Carmont, aged 19, who admitted forging and uttering a oheque at Hamilton, was placed on probation and prohibited from racecourses and ,billiard saloons. Wm; Edwards, for breaking and ett-i tering a dwelling at Dargaville, and! theft, received three months' imprison-] ment. » I Probation was ordered in a number of cases involving minor offences.