ABSENCE OF CRIME

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 133, 31 May 1932, Page 5

ABSENCE OF CRIME

Gisborne Congratulated

ONLY ONE CIVIL CASE

SUPREME COURT SITTING

(Per Press Association)

GISBORNE, This Day.

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 apaprent freedom from serious crime.

Six persons 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 at Gisborne. PRISON ERSSENTENCED GISBORNE, This Day. At the Supreme Court the following prisoners were sentenced: —-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 detention; David Marino, theft at Tolago Bay, nine months’ hard labour; George Marino, same offence, three years’ Borstal; George Gray and John Morris, same offence, two years’ probation.