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DUNEDIN SENTENCES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 5. At the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr Justice Smith .sentenced Francis .13. Francis to three years’ reformative detention for forgery and false pretences. .In this case the sum of £400!) was involved, prisoner embarking in the motor business , without capital, mortgaging the same car to different finance agents. The Judge said that finance companies had been defrauded which existed for the convenience of those requiring advances on cars by the issue of hire-purchase agreements. These were not registerable. Consequently it was clear that there was an opening for dishonest people to represent a truck as being free when it had already been given as security to another company. Unless these companies adopted a system of inter-com-pany chocking, fraud was possible. Other prisoners to he sentenced were: William .James Park, indecent assault, two years’ reformative detention. William Neilsou Alaekie, two charges of indecent assault, five years on probation, conditional on remaining in the Salvation Army Home, Addington. DRUNKEN DRIVER. DANNEVIRKE, May 4. William Martin Kelly appeared be-fore-Justices of the Peace oil two charges of being found in a state ol intoxication while he was in charge of •a motor-car, while he wife was charged with being found drunk. Owing to the erratic course the car was steering, the police followed, and when it stopped in a side street the driver and his wife were found in a very drunken condition. In the other instance, Kelly, while drunk on April Ist, collided with a Gisborne car, through being on the wrong side. A police sergeant said that Kelly was a menace to the road, not only to himself hut to other people. Kelly was convicted and fined £lO on the first charge, and his license was cancelled for three months. On the other charge, he was convicted and discharged, paying 12s costs. His wife was convicted and discharged on the charge of drunkenness. BoLh were prohibited lor 12 months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1929, Page 3
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327COURT NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1929, Page 3
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