SUPREME COURT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18438, 23 March 1922, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

WARNING TO MEN ON PROBATION.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 22. 1 Several prisoners were sentenced 'at the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Herdman. Charles Henry Glover, on two charges of forgery at Auckland in lOctober, 1920, and a breach of probation, was sentenced to two •years’ hard labour. Addressing the .prisoner, his Honour, referring to a plea of leniency, said: Regarding your war record, that is no excuse ■lfor the committal of offences. As a I Minister of the Crown, I had some 'experience with soldiers, and I found most of the men who returned from ifhe war led reputable lives. I should say 9 0 per cent, of them settled down 'land are now reputable citizens. It is no excuse why I should abstain from punishing you. Men must obey their probation orders. I understand many who are placed on pro'bation treat such leniency very lightly. Let this be a warning to all those at present on probation that it is not to be abused.” A MAORI’S CRIME. The offence you committed against your sister is a most disgusting one,” his Honour said to a Maori, Hohepa Ta.nu Poniare, found guilty of incest at Whangarei. ‘‘lf you were a European I would have given you a long sentence, but you are a Maori, and I suppose I must consider your peculiar ideas of morality. I will send you to gaol for a short period. You -will be imprisoned for six months with hard labour.” Prisoner asked hig Honour to give him probation. “No. I will not do that,” said his Honour. OTHER SENTENCES. Other sentences were:—James Francis McMullen (breaking, entering and theft), three months imprisonment; Norman Stewart Ward (breaking, entering and theft) three years’ probation: Andrew Peter Jensen (forgery) six months’ reformative treatment at the end of the Present sentence of two years ’ reformative treatment; Alfred Hinton (two charges of forgery and uttering at Auckland, and two similar offences at Wanganui), eighteen months’ hard labour.