CRIME PUNISHED
SENTENCES AT GISBORNE
NUMBER OF THEFT CASES. , Per Press Association. * GISBORNE, March 9. At tho Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Alpers passed the following sentences: Waka Ngatai (on probation) and Turanga Huihui, two years’ reformative detention, and Horatio Acosta, two years’ hard labour, for breaking and entering an hotel and stealing liquor at To Araroa; Tamohine Takamo, twelve months’ reformative detention for forgery and uttering at Tokomaru Bay. Herbert White, convicted of breaking and entering at Taneatua, was ordered to como up for sentence when called on, the judge regarding Jhe charge as rather trumpery_ for a Suprem© Court action; Kaiwai Makanni, for carnal knowledge, was ordered to como up for sentence when called upon; John Robinson, twelve months* reformative detention, breaking and entering a store at Waiomat-atini; Caleb Charles Castell, twelve months’ reformative detention for theft of moneys from the Hydro-electric Engineering Company.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12391, 10 March 1926, Page 6
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