PRISONERS SENTENCED
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'AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT. GAGL FOR YOUNG MAN.
AUCKLAND, This day. "I have no doubt that the girl was an enticing qarty, and you did not need to exercise persuasion,"_ said Mr Justice Smith, when sentenciug Robert Desmond Colquhoun (24) for unlaw--ful carnal knowledge. "O11 the other hand,1 the law says- that young men are not to ' have carnal knowledge of girls under 16, whetlier they consent or lTat. Men who are intimate with them do" so at their :own risk." The sentence imposed was three months' harcl labour. William Pearce (69) for burglaries and thefts, was sentenced to four years' hard labour.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 256, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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107PRISONERS SENTENCED Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 256, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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