SUPREME COURT

Southland Times, Issue 21717, 1 June 1932, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

GISBORNE SESSION. (Per United Press Association.) Gisborne, May 31. There were no criminal cases for trial at the quarterly sitting of the Supreme Court to-day. The district was congratulated by the Chief Justice upon its apparent freedom from serious crime. Six prisoners were arraigned for sentence. Remarking on the fact that there was only one civil case his Honour recalled the time in his own practice when Gisborne, relatively for its size, produced lists of considerable dimensions, in fact the sittings of the Court in this district were ones to which counsel looked forward. He did not know whether the absence of civil work was a good sign or not, but the fact was that civil litigation was becoming less and less and it might not be necessary for the future to hold so many sittings in Gisborne. The following sentences were imposed: Robert Douglas Little, breaking and entering, two years’ probation. John Hunter, theft as a servant of £374 from the Gisborne Gas Company, three years’ reformative. David Marina, theft,at Tolaga Bay, nine months’ hard labour. George Marina, the same offence, three years in the Borstal. George Gray and John Morris, the same offence, two years’ probation.