REQUEST GRANTED

NZ Truth, Issue 1306, 22 December 1930, Page 2

REQUEST GRANTED

Ada Gets Three Months; S.M. Mentions Twelve "T would ask your Worship to temper 1 mercy with justice," pleaded Mr. Bryce Hart, m the Auckland Magistrate's Court. "I am going to," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. "I shall give her three months' instead of twelve." Mr. Hart's plea was entered on behalf of Ada Reid, who had been charged the previous week with being a rogue and a vagabond, and pleaded not guilty. However, when Ada, through Mr. Hart, declared that she had relatives quite willing to look after her, his Worship stood the case over for a week while enquiries were made with a view to verifying- Ada's statement. "I have written to the brother m Rotorua, who tells me that he doesn't want her," Mr. Hart told the court. "I also have made some enquiries," said Mr. Hunt enigmatically, and proceeded to impose sentence. "I don't wish it to be thought that I deceived the court when I said relatives were willing to have her" continued Mr. Hart, pointing out that he had been guided entirely by the woman's statements. "That is quite all right," the Magistrate told him.