PROBATION REFUSED.
FAILURE TO ACCOUNT. PERIOD OF DETENTION. On charges of failing to account for sums of money totalling £l5B 3s 6d, Augustus Samuel Hodgson was sentenced in tho Supreme Court yesterday to 18 months' reformative detention. In asking for leniency, counsel said prisoner had a position to which he could g°"The case is not one for probation," said Mr. Justice Smith. Accused had shown very definite criminal tendencies since 1930. When working on a commission basis he had falsely represented that ho had obtained certain orders and had been placed on probation. He was ordered to make restitution of £l2 and had pai.d only £2 12s. Reports of accused from Whangare! and Dargaville were of a serious nature and it would be in accused's own interests for him to be brought up sharply^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 12
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134PROBATION REFUSED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 12
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