SUPREME COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES AT WANGANUI.

RUKENA SENT TO GAOI. FOR FIVE YEARS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day,

Mr Justice Quilliam sentenced prisoners in the Supreme Court today as follows: — Thomas Robert McCallum, 1 attempted theft, tvzo years’ probation; prisoner to take out a prohibition order. Allan Duward Carlton, misappropriation of money, two years’ probation; ordered to make restitution. Frederick Charles Hamlin, breaking and entering and iheft, sent to Borstal for two years. Cecil Harold , Lewis negligently driving a motor car and causing bodily harm, fined £3O and to pay costs of prosecution, £4l 14s 2d. Charles Neil Neilson, attempting to do bodily harm by means of an explosive substance, formally sentenced to two years’ hard labour. His honour said he had thought of making arrangements to have the prisoner *who is aged 62, sent to ? Salvation Army home, but in view of a letter he had written to his wife he could not allow him his liberty. The Judge idded that he would make representations to the proper authorities to have the prisoner’s case dealt with.

A sentence of five years’ imprisonment with hard labour wa-- passed on Nataki Rukena, for negligently driving a car while in a stale of intoxication and causing death.