SUPREME COURT
NEW PLYMOUTH SESSION. (Per United Press Association.) - ' New Plymouth, May 26. The quarterly session of the Supreme Court opened to-day before his Honour Mr Justice Blair, who congratulated the district on the comparative absence of serious crime. The Grand Jury returned a “true bill” against Robert Thomson, charged with arson at Eltham on January 10. SENTENCES AT NAPIER. Napier, May 26. For breaking, entering and theft two Maori lads, William Broughton and George Thomas McDonald Bryant, who recently escaped from a prison camp, were sentenced to two years’ hard labour by Mr Justice Ostler. In his address to the Grand Jury, the judge 1 said that the chief case of five criminal charges was one against a lorry driver, who was charged with causing the death of Mrs Kingsland. Thomas Leslie Williams was found guilty of incest and sentence was deferred.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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143SUPREME COURT Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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