SUPREME COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 May 1936, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES AT WANGANUI (By Telegraph—Press Association) WANGANUI, 25th May. William Robert Keane, who appeared in the Supreme Court this morning on a charge of stealing four sheep was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, concurrent with the sentence already serving. Wanganui River Services Ltd., were fined £lO for selling liquor at a landing on the upper reaches of the Wanganui River while the vessel was tied up. Two constables went aboard and purchased a bottle of whisky and four bottles of beer. On a similar charge, Ngapene Rapiha, a steward, was fined £2. The packet license only provides for liquor, being sold to passengers while the vessel is in motion. AUCKLAND SENTENCES AUCKLAND, 25th May. Two Maoris, Richard de Thierry and Joe Herbert, alias Adam, who admitted in the Police Court at Rawene, burglary and theft of articles valued at £3O, also setting fire to a building, were sentenced by Mr Justice Fair to four years’ imprisonment. Percy de Thierry, a younger brother and Colin Tahare, admitted burglary at the schoolhouse. The foi'mer was sent to the Borstal for two years and Tahere was admitted to probation for two years. SIX YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT

A sentence of six years’ imprisonment with hard labour was passed by Mr Justice Fair on Frederick Morrison, aged 54, retired, for indecent assaults on a boy. In 1932 the accused was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention for a similar offence. The Judge said that the accused had arranged for the boy to live with him, and had repeated the offences of which he had previously been found guilty. “It seems that nothing can be said to palliate these offences, which, continued over a period of four months,” said the Judge. “An exemplary sentence must be imposed.” The accused was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on each of three charges, the terms to be cumulative.