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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1922, Page 3

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IMV TKl.r.lltlAl'il I'Ell miF.Hrt ASSOUI ITION j SUI’iIKMK COURT. DUNEDIN, Aug S. For the respective oii'enees mentioned tiie following prisoners were setiicmcd by Mr Justice Husking. Fur breaking, entering and theft at Ralclutlm. (leo Thomson was admitted to probation for three years, conditional on abstaining from liquor. Breaking, entering and theft. Alexander Livingstone, probation for three years. Theft of £IOOO at the Host Office where lie was employed, Kdwnril Hcdley Kitchener Hughes. reform a t-ivo detention for three years. Theft of a chest of tea. Walter Stanley Carlyle and Andrew William Stott were placed on probation, the former for one year and Stott for five years. False pretences and forgery. Win. Chapman Dmherty. three years’ reformative treatment, concurrent on each of two charges. Indecent assault. Charles Alexander Moore (19) three years’ imprisonment with a recommendation that he he sent to Borstal. Forging and uttering. Aforis Johnson, three years’ reformative troat-

Thel't. Clias Walter Penrose, probation for two years. Break in. . entering am! theft. by night. Walter Fraser. Sherrill Harness. four months’ imprisonment, and Duncan Cameron, probation for three

In the ease of a married woman • making a false statement when registering a birth, a fine of 20 s was imposed and publication of her name suppressed. DTTNEDTN, Aug 9. At (ho criminal sittings, the follow- , |„g sentences were passed :- Tames , Walker (assault) two years probation. ( eating liquor. Arthur Henry Douglas conditonal on abstention front intoxiAfaeDougnll (already on 3 years probation). theft and forgery as a Government servant in the Repatriation Departments, two years’ reformative . ( treatment. ■ •