MAORI SENT TO BORSTAL
PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED Press Association. HAMILTON, Friday. A sentence of two years’ detention in a Borstal institute was imposed by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court to-day, on a Maori named William Louis Gentry aged 21, who pleaded guilty to the theft of eight calf skins at Gordon'ton, valued at 325, and of a hat at Taupiri, valued at £1 17s 6d. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said that accused had previously served a sentence of reformative detention for theft, and had been convicted for vagrancy. He had a bad reputation among the Maoris.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280211.2.158
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 13
Word Count
97MAORI SENT TO BORSTAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 13
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in