SUPREME COURT.
'SITTINGS AT AUCKLAND. [Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, August 31. In the Supreme. Court this morning, on a charge of robbery with violence at Newmarket, William Barnett was sentenced to 18 months’ and Charles Cummings and Walter H. Page each to one month’s imprisonment.* NO CRIME IN SOUTHLAND. INVERCARGILL, August 31. Addressing the Grand Jury in the Supreme Court, Judge Williams expressed: great satisfaction that there .were no criminal cases, The district liad always been remarkably. free from crime, but this was the first time in his experience that there was absolutely no crime. It was, the case, he thought, in 1901 and 1906, when Judge Denniston presided, and the same thing. has happened. The Crown 'Rroseeutqr congratulated,-thedown, ftfußthe. Oiork of the Court presented His Honor with a .pair of white gloves. Justice Wiljn> returning;, remarked that thoiigh this • part.'of., the .country was not blessed with such a soft and luxurious climate as in - the North, it was a fact that the further North one went the greater the amount of crime. However that might be, it was clear in Southland they had an honest, hardworking community, in which the habitual criminal could find no place.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2595, 1 September 1909, Page 3
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197SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2595, 1 September 1909, Page 3
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