SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1932, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON.

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WELLINGTON, September 13

Prisoners were sentenced by Sir Michael Myers in the Wellington Supreme Court as follows: —

Edward Thomas, Humphreys, aged 40, an ex-postal clerk, nine charges ot theft as a servant, of Government money, of a total of £7l/4/8, and one charge of forging and uttering a Post I Office payings bank withdrawal slip for £IOO, three years’ reformative detention.

John Bright Austin, aged 08, a baker, obtaining money by false pretences and attempted ditto, convicted and ordered to come up for sentence il called upon within one year, and to pay the costs nf the prosecution £2/8/-. Francis Henry Ernest Pierse, 20 years of age, breaking and entering, and theft, two years’ Borstal. John Knox Glover, aged 30, a hairdresser, theft of art, union moneys, twelve months’ hard labour.

1 Waratuna Renata Ngahana, aged 37, theft as . a servant of the Native | Trust Department, three years’ reformiative detention., ;