TYPE NOT WANTED

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 6

TYPE NOT WANTED

AUSTRALIAN BEFORE- COURT

JUSTICE HERDMAN’S COMMENT

(By Telegraph— fti Press Association )

AUCKLAND, May 23

“The way of transgressors is hard,” was a remark made by a prisoner in a -statement handed to the judge of the iSupremo Court. He was Frederick Fisher, aged 22, an Au'-traliau, • wjm came up for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering and theft, having pleaded guilty in the lower Court. Mr Justice Herd man said Fisher was the type of man we did not want in this country. He- was at present serving, a sentence, of three years' reformative detention. He had previously been convicted in Australia of vagrancy, and another 'small offence, and at Wellington of breaking and entering and theft. He had been in New Zealand only a little over a year. dt was no doubt, perfectly true, as prisoner had stated, that the way ot transgressors is hard, but the voineiquences he had endured were no doubt to a very large extent the result of his own misconduct. Fisher wa>s .sentenced to be detained for reformative purposes for a period not exceeding two years, the .sentence to run concurrently with the one he is now serving.