DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1928, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

FALSE PRETENCES

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WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. Douglas Arthur Fletcher liix-wer

aged 3Z, was to-day sentenced to t-cive months reformative detention on a marge of obtaining petrol by false pretences, and uas convicted and ilisciiargeil on another charge. It was stated he had been employed at a service station and find opened accounts at live different hanks, had deposited miall amounts and had been issuing • alueless cheques. The magistrate said me offences showed Brewer was ioiio".ng a system and he had indulged in me same tiling on several previous occasions.

THEFT SENTENCE.

WELLINGTON, Dec. 17

M ilit a list of eight previous convictions, James Sadler, aged 43, a hairdresser pleaded guilty to theft of -18 7s del belonging to William H. Cortical. Accused was found in Cornell’s house. Jle had been intermittently employed by Corneal, and was allowed to go alter an explanation, but later it was found a cabinet was broken into and the money was stolen. Sadler was slightly under influence of liquor at the time of the offence. A term of turoe months was impu&eu.

FOUND INJURED. AUCKLAND, Dec. 17

A “Herald” employee crossing Grafton Bridge over S.vmonths Street cemetery at 2 4-5 this morning, heard a. groaning underneath and informed the police, who found in a gully, a married man Victor Charles, with a compound fracture of the right leg, and had him removed to the hospital. Charles is a married man and resides at Grey 1, VIUI.

CANOEIST -MISSING. AUCKLAND, December 17

A party in a launch yesterday on Black Rock LA miles from the harbour found a capsized canoe bearing the name “Revel.” The police ascertained that Horatio Hawkins, a resident of Devonport left home at mid-day on Sunday for a row in the canoe. He had not returned this morning. The ixdiee are searching the beaches.

MAGISTRATE'S COMM EXT’. PALMERSTON NORTH, Dec. 17

It is absurd that such a number of requests should come heme this Court for sii.ppresion of names, said Mr Stout SAL, when a icq ;o.>t of this nature was brought forward by a solicitor. There is added the .Magistrate, a special provision in the Act for young people who have made a slip to on a Lie iliein to have a chance to reform, hut the number of requests is becoming; too common.

TWO YEARS’ BORSTAL

WELLINGTON. Dec. 17

Ralph John Garnett, nineteen, win. pleaded guilty to rape at Taihnpe. wa: to-day sentenced by Mr Justice McGregor to two years’ reformative detention in Borstal. His Honour remarked that the charge related to ;• married woman, apparently older tlmi the prisoner. Jt was a clear case. It was of an unusual kind, and it wa: Main it was not an aggravated case. Apparently prisoner was not very strong in mind or body. He had come to the conclusion, however, that he ■diould not grant probation. 4 here was the question of health, but hiHonour said so far as this is concerned, the prisoner would probably be le ter looked after on a. small bush farm such as he was living on.