SUPREME COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 June 1930, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

HAMILTON SENTENCES

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

HAMILTON, This Day.

The following prisoners were sentenced at Hamilton, Supreme Court this morning by Mr Justice Herdman:— August Herman Dernier, found guilty of dangerously driving a car so as to cause the death of Norman" Steven Bradlev, fined £IOO and had his driver's license cancelled for three years. Rone Fairama, found guilty of shooting another Maori so as to cause grievous bodily harm, three years' reformative detention. Whare Matangi, with a long list of convictions, received two years' hard labour for theft of a horse and was declared an habitual criminal.

Joseph Powell was fined £SO, with costs £2l, for bookmaking at Huntly. Walter .John Butters, a youth aged 18 years' was sentenced to reformative treatment for three years for indecent assault on a girl of five years at Morrinsville.

For robbery with violence at Huntly. Donald Hayward, aged 27 years, received twelve months' hard labour and reformative detention for a further two years.

.lames Walter Barr Brown of Piitaruru, a coroner and Justice of the Peace, who pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault on boys, was sentenced to reformative treatment for five years.

Robert Edward Young was sentenced to reformative detention for three years for an unnatural offence at Hamilton.