NAPIER SUPREME COURT.
PRISONERS SENTENCED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 23. At the Napier Supreme Court, the Chief Justice, Sir R. sentenced Montague Sabine Paisley, of Hastings to seven years’ reformative treatment for the embezzlement of £472 from the firm of Hardlev Son, and Stewart, of w hich he was the accountant. Sir R. Stout said that he understood that the total defalcations amounted to mo less than £12,000. The accused had given way to gambling, which was .a great curse, ruining hundreds of people in New Zealand. t .Tames Doughi, on a charge of break ing and entering at Waipawa, was ecnte nice cl to four years' reformative treatment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16819, 23 August 1922, Page 9
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