NAPIER SUPREME COURT
THE CHIEF JUSTICE CONDEMNS EXTRAVAGANCE.
By Tolejraph—Press Association. Napier, August 27. At the Supreme Court, James Donghi, for theft from a dwelling at Waipawa, was sentenced to three yearif reformative treatment. . James (forbett Murphy, alias Sullivan, was sentenced to tour months' hard labour fbr misappropriating funds of the Seamen's Union. Sir Robert Stout said the accused had been straightforward in the matter, and continued: > I don t know what is going to happen to tho country if this extravagance goes on. Murphy had'been in receipt at times of as much'as 25 a week, and had saved nothing out of this, after providing for his wife and four children. Tho extravagance since the war is a disgrace to the community," added His Honour. Richard Dann was found not guilty of causing actual bodily harm to a child struck By a mo'for-car driven by the accused. After tho verdict Sir Robert Stout, remarked to the Crown Prosecutor, "I suppose you had better not bring any more cases for negligence in Napier."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 285, 28 August 1919, Page 6
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172NAPIER SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 285, 28 August 1919, Page 6
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