ISLANDER’S PLEA
TWO YEARS’ GAOL FOR HOUSEBREAKING LAZINESS HIS TROUBLE A last-minute plea that he committed two crimes because he could not obtain a job did not avail Jack Hopo, an Islander, when he appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court today for sentence. Breaking, entering and theft, and breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime were Hopo’s offences. “This is the first time I have done this in New Zealand,’’ Hopo told the judge. “You say in your statement you stole for food,” remarked his Honour, “but on May 29 you stole £l2, and 12 days later you stole blankets, clothing and a gramophone, whereas the money should have sufficed to keep you over the time of the second crime.” “This is not your first acquaintance with the court,” added his Honour. “You were sentenced for a similar offence in the Islands. Your trouble is laziness, and you will have to learn that crime will not be tolerated in this country any more than in the Islands.” Sentence of one year’s hard labour, to be followed by one year’s reformative treatment on each charge, the terms to be concurrent, was passed on Hopo.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 709, 8 July 1929, Page 11
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198ISLANDER’S PLEA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 709, 8 July 1929, Page 11
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