SENTENCED FOR ARSON
'A MOST SERIOUS OFFENCE"
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day. Found guilty of wilfully setting fire to a Frankton billiard saloon on 21st August, Ira George Land, a brush merchant, was'sentenced to two years' hard labour, to be followed by three years' reformative detention, by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court at Hamilton to-day. -. . ■
The wilful destruction of property by hre is one of the most serious offences we have to deal with," commented his Honour. ...•■■ . ~ . -..'■ .
I Charles Barclay -Dewar was sentenced to two years' hard labour on a charge of S r m"s' and entering the premises of the le Aroha Borough ..Council on. Bth October. ..' • ■ ■'-■ — .■ —
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 5
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111SENTENCED FOR ARSON Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 5
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