SUPREME COURT SITS IN INVERCARGILL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 10

SUPREME COURT SITS IN INVERCARGILL.

Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, August 21. The Supreme Court session opened to-day before Mr Justice Ostler, who said he could not congratulate the district on an absence of crime, as, though there was only one case for the Grand Jury, there were six prisoners for sentence. He favourably commented on the absence of sexual cases Benjamin John Marrah, for breaking and entering, was sentenced to two years’ probation. James Brown Doake and Francis Augustus Stempa, on three charges of breaking and entering and theft, were placed on two years’ probation, and ordered to make restitution of £6O. Ralph Swan, a postal official, for stealing 28s from letters, was admitted to two years’ probation. For serious breaches of probation, Albert Sharp was ordered to be detained for a period not exceeding four years for reformative treatment. Theodore Archibald Hansen, a railway clerk at Queenstown, for theft of £44, was granted probation for two years, conditional on making restitution and taking out a prohibition order. Neale Keith Coulter, for thefts at Palmerston North, was sentenced to three years’ reformaItive treatment, to be served concurrently with the sentence he is now serving