SUPREME COURT
SENTENCES AT HAMILTON.
(I'er Press Association — Copyright.)
HAMILTON, November 21. Found guilty of wilfully setting fire to a Fraiukton billiard-saloon on August 21, Ira George L) .nd, a brush merchant, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour, to he-followed by three years’ reformative detention, by Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court at Hamilton.
“The wilful destruction of property hy fire is one of the most serious offences we have to dfelT with,” commented His Honour.
Charles Barclay Dewar, received two years’ hard labour on a- charge of breaking and entering the Te Arohh borough council on October 8.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19321121.2.73
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1932, Page 6
Word Count
101SUPREME COURT Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1932, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.