SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 31 July 1922, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

SENTENCES PARSED. (ay TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION ) WELLINGTON, July 31. At the Supreme Court, Ralph Emeny Small, an ex-civil servant, on a charge of the theft of Government moneys totalling £34, was admitted to probation for two years. Andrew Ernest Neilson, fcr forgery and attempted uttering, was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding three years. Joseph Peters, a Syrian hoy, was convicted on a charge of breaking, entering and theft at Eketahuna while on probation for a previous offence. ; The Judge said the boy had been badly j treated 'on the farm where he was' working. He had been worked like a slave and poorly fed. He was sen- j tenced to two years' probation. William Parker, who deliberately smashed a plateglass window in Stew-J art Dawson's shop, and is now serving: a month for" making a seditious utter-' ance, was ordered three years' reformative detention. David Davies, who was caught redhanded burglarising Chief Detective Kemp's residence, admitted this and \ thirteen other charges of burglary. He was sentenced to reformative detention for five years. i David Broughton, a Maori lad, for breaking and entering at Palmerston ' North, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention.