SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 June 1923, Page 7

SUPREME COURT.

j f —~— ————— i . HAMILTON SITTINGS. I , i (.by tiiKGRApn —riiF.ss association.) I HAMILTON, 3wm 22. f At tli# Supreme Court George King, • former public works overseer at Aria, wag found .guilty of forging public works touchers, ai£<i was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, and ordered to pay £l?A) towards the cost of the prosocii"tion. The judge said' that tliis kind of thing was becoming a scaivdal in the pviblir; service. Sarrruel Richard Johnson- fariiier, : Owhango, was awc;rde<l £500 against Maurfce Flyan- for seduction* of ; a daughter. Evidence was given hj de-' fondant that he and the girl kepi' ■from-j pany. Intimacy occured on several oeca--| and intimacy occurred on several csvaa- I sions. Defendant promised to marry Sh.e ■; girT, but later refused, and expressed j doubt as to whether he- was the fath«r of the girl's child.