SUPREME COURT
SENTENCES ;AT WELL!NGTON
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. WELLINGTON, November. 27. Prisoners Aye're.. sentenced' by Mr Justice Macgregor. to-,day;,,as ;, V James'/McGHnchey/ .twb;;years’ gaol for stealing £64U/18/2t from'his employers, Yates Caslf Stores, TStdr •; a " Albert Larsen,, aged 80, .'Was admitted to two * years’ probation' for indecent assault on a female child.
Hemi Makarine, and, Tiln Makarine, eighteen months’ imprisonment, for breaking, entering and Lth'efjt*' at Gisborne. Frederick Charles. Daiiby, eighteen months’ gad, .breaking, entering and ( theft, at Wellington. , .
TWO SENTENCES FOR THEFT.
AUCKLAND, November 27
Moncrief Nixon, 22, and Cyril' Robert‘Hankins, '25, who - were arrested in Australia in October for stealing £795, .the property of the Labour Department at Auckland, were sentenced to-day by Mr Justice'- Smith,
He said Nixon’s downfall appeared to be' due to gambling. It was the old, old story. His theft was deliberate and probation was impossible. He would be detained in the' Borstal \ Institute for three years. ' , ’. Regarding Hankins, the Judge .said he was not a party to the actual theft, but he had shared in -the money and thereby r became a party, He was admitted to probation for throe years on condition that he paid '£loo ’to the Labour Department during the probation period. • ‘ ; * : ' '
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1933, Page 2
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