THEFTS ADMITTED.
JUDGE DEFERS SENTENCE. Theft of £IOO, received as a deposit for erection of a house at Mount Albert, was admitted by John Jeffrey, aged 47 years (Mr. Tong), in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. Justice Stringer deferred sentence until Monday to enable the pro bation officer to make a report.
" This boy is all right on the farm, but, unfortunately, he became apprenticed to a baker in Napier and going into the town was his undoing," said Mr. Gibb, assistant probation officer, when Herbert George Reddington, aged 18 (Mr. Moody), admitted theft of jewellery valued at £24 10s, the property of H. J, Gaskell, of Ramarama.
Mr. Moody asked that the prisonershould be sent to Wereroa Training Farm. H.i} was under the care of the State. Mr. Gibb said he would be quite willing that Reddington should be sent to the farm. If the Court ordered it he would remain under the care of the authorities until he was 21. His Honor said he was doubtful as to what order he could make. If it were possible for him to do so, he would commit the prisoner to the. farm. He would look into the question and prisoner would be remanded until this morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 15
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