SUPREME COURT
ALLEGED NEGLIGENT DRIVING
By Telegraph—Press Association) GISBORNE, This Day. The first session of the Supreme Court at Gisborne for six months opened before Mr Justice Reed this morning, with only one criminal case for trial, this being a charge against a Maori from Opotiki, Jacob Ngatai, of alleged negligent driving, causing the death of a pessenger in the car. . A true bill was returned and the trial is proceeding. A native from Te Ararroa, Te Hori Pariohi, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for carnal knowledge, and Tawhai Waenga, of Ruatoria, was sentenced to eighteen months for committing mischief by wounding a horse. NEW PLYMOUTH SENTENCES NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Prisoners were sentenced as follows in the Supreme Court this morning:— Edwin Edwards, convicted of indecent assault on a boy, two years’ and nine months’ hard labour; Alfred Hector Cronk, aged 18 years, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to seven charges of breaking and entering and theft, two years’ Borstal treatment; Henry Thomas Barrett, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to bigamy, six months’ hard labour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 May 1936, Page 7
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181SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 May 1936, Page 7
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