CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18132, 25 June 1919, Page 8

CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY.

FLOGGING AS A f '''" ' " , SUGGESTED , ,'■/ '•[Pw.P»Mi'-,A«MOUMBJf.] > .;" ' . GISBOR-NE, June 24At the Supremo Court criminal ses- . sum there wore five sexual charges 'on v:.ithe calendar, three being against one '•?' ■'•'«•: Maori and two against another Native. ;'-'='•- a?li© Grand Jury made the following '":•■'•";' (submission to his Honor:—"This jury '?' -views with .apprehension the number of *** indictments' for sexual crimes presented i 'to them, and the general Jgrowth of Zfa "'. this' class "of* crime ' throughout the :' 'Dominion." -it His Honor said he quite agreed with the. jury's presentment- He had said Jiimaelf on a recent occasion that he thought tho time had arrived when judges should consider tho advisability ■or" flogging in these cases. Judges had i:;V : -;'rthe right to order'a flogging, and it •i waa a-question whether that right -V - should not be inflicted/ with a view to '■"■' deterring those who may be inclined i. ;; '. -,-tro-such offences. ..: . , ■ •'. The following prisoners appeared for \f*i, sentence:—Hotene llehutai, : alias •*' -Rangi, forgery, twelve months; Kawa Takoko, forgery, two years, and p'ro- . bation money to be refunded; Joseph ; Busmer„ alteration of a registration card, to come up for sentenco when called upon; Clarence Collier, alias yi ', Jock Thompson, theft of £75, admitted '-'' ; : ', io probation for two years and ordered to make restitution; Arthur Leslie \:l< ■■' L'eetsf, theft of a motor-cycle, two years' probation; Ema Grant, charged with theft of'£7, six months' imprisonment.