FIRST GAOL SENTENCE FOR OFFENCE
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(By Telegxaph-
WELLINGTON, Last Night. Describing frauds on the Employment- Promotion Fund at the present time as "nothing less than a raeket — and a vicioua raeket,' ' Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., sentenced Laurence Petersen, Inbourer, to six ponths hard labour on two chaTges of obtaining £1 by false pretences and convicted and diseharged him on two charges. This is the rnaximum punishment a magistrate has power to make — terms of imprisonment of three months, cumulative, on two charges only. It is understood that this is the lirst ocacsion in New Zea- , land on which a penalty of this nature has-been-imposed.- • • Mr. Luxford expressed the hope that the -department •would employ the prowisions of the Criminal Act in future.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 3
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