SUPREME COURT SENTENCES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1913, Page 8

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES

CHRISTCHURCH CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (by telegraph— press association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. . The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened this morning. There are fifteen indictments against twelve persons. Mr. Justice Denmston, in _ his charge to the Grand Jury, said the cases were unusually simple, and he would not refer to them in any detail. The list includes two charges of bigamy and, several of a sexual nature. His Honour did not mention tjie Russell case, adjourned from the last sessions. DUNEDIN, This Day. Albert Victor Bucton, aged twenty-one, for- false pretences at Dunedin, was com. mitted lo Invercargill for reformative treatment for three years. In the case of Harold Charles Phillips, aged thirtythree, for forgery at Dunedin, his Honour took into consideration the evidence that prisoner had led an honest • life , except when in drink, and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment • ■ '•' AUCKLAND;' This Day. 'In', the 'Supreme' Court, fttr. Justice Edwards sentenced Walter Richard Page, for theft from a vessel at Auckland, to twelve months' hard labour aud five years' reformative treatment;' Thomas Herbert Aitken, for forgery at Gisborne, to one year, and two years' reformative treatment; William Bert Millington, theft from a boardihghotise, six months' imprisonment, olid two years' reformative treatment; Edtoard Charles Banbury, alias John Bandley aged eighteen, on two charges of breaking and entering at Auckland, to one year's imprisonment on each charge, ,to be concurrent, and five years' reformative treatment. His Honour remarked that it was a pity the lad had not, been kept . in New South .Wales where he came from. There w.as ample employment for honest lads in ■New Zealand, but prisoner preferred . to climb, up waterpipes into warehouses instand of Mining an honest living.

An opinion about commercial travelling, given ey the president' of th© Wellington Chamber of Commerco in 11)11, is embodied in an American hand-book of New Zealand. "Ac regards entertaihing." the president said, "in my experience this has been found decreasing every year ; in fact, we find that the bes,t ( travellers we send out arc those who both drink .the least themselves ahd avoid . buying business ,by entertaining. The day has gone by for this, and the' man who Bticks to business, and business only,, wins out in the long run. By. far the largest amount Bpent above legitimate expenditure is caused by travellers spending it with their fellow ' travellers."