SUPREME COURT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18533, 15 July 1922, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

AT WELLINGTON. (Per Press Association.) •WELLINGTON, July 14. At the Supreme Court George Alfred Christie and Albert Cooday, for breaking and entering/ were sentencing to six months’ imprisonment. Arthur Gordon Kale, for indecent assault, was ordered to be detained at the Borstal Institution, Invercar gill, for reformative treatment for four years.

Reuben Tawhao Kopu, breaking, entering and theft, was admitted to probation upon strict terms for two yea rs.

William Arthur Woods, theft, was ordered, three years ’ reformative detention.

Karl Johan Bartel Sundstrom and Philip Gunn admitted the theft of a sheep, but explained that they had been camping in the back country of Taranaki, eighteen miles from the nearest village with a butcher’s shop, and had killed a stray sheep which had wandered into the camp. The Chief Justice said the case was not of a serious type, and each ac. cused was ordered to pay £4 expenses an,d placed on probation for two years. Raymond Woodward, for disregard of a probationary'license, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment. AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, July 14 At the Supreme Court several prisoners were brought up for sentence William Broome Cant, formerly rabbit inspector and dog ranger for the Akaroa County Council, for theft of the Council’s money, was placed on probation for three years and orderejd to pay £lO towards the cost of extraditing him from Australia, and tp make restitution of the sum stolen. George. Edgar Pengelly, aged 24, with a series of convictions against him from 1907, for breaking entering and theft, was sentenced to a. year’s imprisonment, to be followed by three years’ reformative treatment. Thos. Bartlett, for breaking. entering and theft, was placed on three years’ 'probation; and. Kenneth Harry Armstrong, false pretences, was ordered three years’ re_ formative treatment