GAOL SENTENCES
"yjZ’.Ui W:/$ l •’ BELIEF WORKERS AND FOREMAN. JUDGE -FAVOURS “-BIRCHING”(Per Press Association—Copyright). * • AUCKLAND, October 20.
‘ “The most effective way in which you could be' punished, if the law - permitted'it, which it does not, would bin to order you "to be birched, not with the “cat,” but, as was the custom fifteen or sixteen years ago, by a •'constable;” said Mr Justice Herdman, ’wdien three young relief workers came before Eis tor sentence ondiarges : of -breaking and ; entering a hall at Tiikemiro.'
-The prisoners were lan Chmeron ‘Colquhoun, aged 22, William Dingle, aged 21, and Donald Innes Reach, aged 20. -Counsel pleaded for leniency on account of -their youth. He said that -perhaps they had 'been led astray by others "on ;the relief job.
'The judge said that the young men, •Who were in receipt of charitable aid, and that was what relief.jpay amounted do, '.must he taught that, when they went to country places, they were not :free do .commit crime to supplement their earnings. . - D,ingle was sentenced to nine months •hard labour iColqnhoun to six months’; and "Reach wasf placed on probation for ■two .years. “You. were associated-with these boys. You were foreman of the relief .gang •in which they worked, and you supplied .them with their jemmy,”, said "the ..Judge ’to Albert FleweUyn, who '.was also charged with breaking and ’entering. .'•ln consideration of Elewellyn’s previous good ■ character he was sentenced ; *to six months’.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1933, Page 6
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238GAOL SENTENCES Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1933, Page 6
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