MEN GIVEN CHANGE
POSTPONEMENT OF 'SENTENCE.
JUDGE xARILS A NEW'COURSE-
(Per Press "Association Ccjyngllt.)
AUCKLAND, November - C
An unusual course was taken ty Mi Justice Herdnian when 'William .Preston,, aged 43, carter, and George Nottingham, .aged 45, labourer, -came .before him for-sentence for being found ■by uioffit- on premiscis in Street* without JLwful excuse. Their case had been- acfewjitjl to. enable h s Honour to obtain inioiniati n from.', the probation ..oljßcoi'. .. . “I jvm going to try a new course with there? men” saiijL his Honrrr. Fo; had inspected their I’cccrds with great •ea.re and discussed them with the probation officer. Preston had not been conv'icted of any serious offence for same considerable time. Nottingham apparently was In.'t convict'd of something serioiv? as far back as 1909. It ra.s saidi that Preston’s people weie prepared to put him into business: .
Kis Honour sa : d he wonkl potpou? j ssing sentence for isix mohths and would see liow these men got on in the me'.'\ntime. He told the men he wits taking some risk, in giving them their liberty, but if ‘they did as the probation officer told them they would get-free at the end of six months. Otherwise they would be declared /habitual critniuVs, and sentenced to a long term of .imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1932, Page 3
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