SUPREME COURT
Tuesday, December 7 (Before his Honor Mr Justice Kennedy) PRISONER FOR SENTENCE Clifford William Hill, a labourer, aged 20 years, appeared for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering a house and theft. " You have been repeatedly beiore the court for crimes of dishonesty and for a crime of the same type as that of which you have now been convicted," said his Honor, in passing sentence. You have been released on occasions on probation and on probationary licence." Ordering the prisoner to be detained in a Borstal institution for a period of two years, his Honor added: "I may warn you that if yoii do not benefit by this period I shall no option but to .sentence you to gaol." DECREES NISI After hearing evidence, his Honor granted decrees nisi in the following undefended i ases:— Phillip Archibald Parker (Mr O. G. Stevens) v. Mary Frances Mitchell Parker and William Boyd (Mr J. B. Thomson, acting under instructions from Mr C. J. L. White), adultery. Edna Rose Gwendoline Parke (Mr R. C. Rutherford) v. Alfred Ben Parke (Mr O. G. Stevens) and Myrtle Mitchell, adultery.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23369, 8 December 1937, Page 5
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