DISGRACEFUL EXTRAVAGANCE!
SAVED NOTHING ON'£s A WEEK. Napier’, Last Night. At the Supremo Court, James Donghi, for theft from a dwelling at Waipawa, was sentenced to three years’ reformative . treatment, James Corbett Murphy, alias Sullivan, was sentenced to four months’ hard labour for misappropriating the funds of the Seamen’s Union. Sir Robert Stout said the accused had been straightforward in the matter, and continued: “I don’t know what is gojng to happen to the country if this extravagance goes on. Murphy had been in receipt at times of as much as £5 a week, and had saved nothing out of this, after providing for his wife and four children. The extravagance since the war is n disgrace to the community,” added his Honour. Richard Dann was found not guilty of causing actual bodily harm to a child struck by a motor car driven by accused. After the ■verdict, Sir" Robert Stout remarked to the Crown Prosecutor: “I suppose you had better not bring any more gjises for negligence in Napiei.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2021, 28 August 1919, Page 3
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170DISGRACEFUL EXTRAVAGANCE! Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2021, 28 August 1919, Page 3
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