SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1924, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

( lIV TEI.KGKAfIt — I'KIE CHESS ASSOCIATION.J

THE KINGSDAI.E CASI*

BEING HEARD TO-DAY. DUNEDIN, May <>. The trial of John Richards and Walter Leonard James Cameron oil charges of conspiring to del'land I lie public and the Gore Racing Club by representing the tiotter The Dingo to lie King-dale, commenced at noon. The .Crown Prosecutor's address occupied over an hour.

There are twenty witnesses in the case which is expected to last over to-morrow. Judge Reed ordered Mini* tin* iuri be not separated till Iktl littisb of tin* case.

EXAMINATION FRA CDS. ACCUSED FINED AHi EACH. A ('('K LAND, May (i. Six students of the Auckland Train ing College, Francis l.cnberg. Yii-Lu* ('. I hitter. Arthur T. Lam-on, Robert T. Flatt. George L. Y. Hunter and Ronald 0. Kirk, for having forged examination papers at the teachers D exam appeared for sentence at the Supreme Court. Mr dii-tiee Herdmaii said that all had aHemptei! to obtain academic diploma- by fraud, a disreputable thing to do. IB* could set; Pence them to imprisonment. but instead he would line each (.’III to he paid monthly so that the accused and lot their parents would lie called on to pay the lines. An application for

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£lO FINES INFLICTED. DUNEDIN. May «:

The criminal sittings have o|i*iu*d. Judge Heed presiding. Stewart Bell McLennan pleaded guilty *■ forging in connection with the teachers D examination. The case had been adjourned Loin l In* previous silling lor an appeal made against the conviction. The other students were lined ten | minds, the Judge stating In* would pursue the same course as did Justices Sim and Herdmaii in the other cases.