SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1932, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

.SITTING AT GISBORNE.

ABSENCE OF OASES

(By Telegraph —Ber Brest Association,

GISBORNE, May 31

There were no criminal eases for j trial at the quarterly sitting of the ; Supreme Court to-day. The district was congratulated by the Chief Justice upon the apparent freedom of serious crime. Six prisoners (fere a-rraigined for sentence. Remarkirig on the fact that thep'e was only joite civil * calse, his, Hoqppr recalled‘a time in his own ,practice/ when Gisborne, relatively for its size,a produced ljstf of considerable ', dintenisioiys.,.; Li fact ‘‘tlie, sittings of the .Court iti -/y?ii disMigt. were ones to,, ■vyhioh eppsisei looked forward. He did not know whether the absence of ejyrikyvqrk .was a good sign or not, but the fact was that civil litigation was ’becoming less and less and it might not .he necessary in the future, to hold' so many sittings at Gisborne.

... , - SENTENCES ON PRI SONERS

GISBORNE, May 31

In tithe- 'Supreme Court sentences were imposed as follows- Robert Douglas •Little, breaking and entering, two ‘-years' probation. • J<thar-Hunter, theft,, as a servant, of £374•’.■from th<? Gisborne Gas Co., three eyearai informative.

1.-David Marin’a. theft at Tolaga Bay nineffmouths’ hard labour.

- Griorge Marina, same : offence, three years’ Borstali George Gral r John Morris, same offence, two years’ probation.