ABUSING PROBATION.
♦ ——' : . [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] . Wellington,' Tuesday. Is sentencing a prisoner, who had been convicted of theft from."the person and released on probation, to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for, failing to pay regularly the instalments laid down by the Court, as the chief term of the probationary condition, Mr. Justice Cooper made some pertinent remarks concerning probationaries and their responsibilities towards the condition of their probation. Addressing the accused, His Honor said that if in the face of his careless action he were admitted to a further term of probation it would simply be making a dead letter of the law. If His Honor passed over this and kindred breaches, he would be destroying any restrictions . previously made in the cases of other prisoners if a second term of probation were; granted accused in the present ■: case, the effect would be to destroy the beneficent measure under which men were admitted to probation. ' It must be clearly understood that when probationaries ' deliberately, and of their own fault, broke the condition of the order, they would forfeit all right. to further consideration. . * '-. "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14017, 24 March 1909, Page 5
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