REFORMATIVE DETENTION.
EIGHTEEN MONTHS’ PERIOD
YOUNG MAORI SENTENCED
Sentence of eighteen months’ reformative detention was passed on Charles Hole, a Maori labourer, aged 19. when he appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate s Court to-day on seven charges of theft and one of breach of probation. Accused had been remanded from yesterday. Commenting that the probation officer’s report on accused was not favourable, the Magistrate convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence at any time within twelve months if called upon, on the four minor charges. On the three major charges (two of the theft of cycles and one of the theft of £7), accused was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention, the terms to be concurrent.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 7
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124REFORMATIVE DETENTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 7
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