MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.Mi, presided at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court today. William McCallum, a seaman,' aged 61, and Charles Henry Parker, a signwriter, aged 23, second offenders for drunkenness, were each fined 10s. .'''•'■ -

. Thomas Rangiuru Stone, a laundryman, aged 34, was remanded for medical; examination on a ; charge of stealing a quart bottleof milk, valued at Is 2d, the property of Frederick Stanley Maloney. Henrys George Morgan, a labourer, aged 35, was fined £1 for resisting a constable in the execution of his duty, and on a charge of drunkenness he was convicted and discharged. .

Two first offenders for drunkenness ..were each fined ss, and one other first offender was convicted and discharged. .A remand for a week was granted in the case of Alfred Hicks Howell, a grocer's assistant, aged 17, who appeared on three charges of breaking and entering at Levin, and stealing goods of a total value of £32 4s 6d.

Detective-Sergeant Revell said that the accused ran away from the Weraroa Training Farm on June IG, and when arrested on Saturday morning the stolen property was found in his possession... Further inquiries regarding other offences had to be made. - ■ ■ .' ;;

Charged with being found without lawful excuse, but under circumstances that did not disclose the commission of or the intention to commit any other offence, in a building in Vivian Street, Charles Herbert Shaw, a labpurer, aged 52, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

Sub-Inspector Martin said that the ac- " cused, who was discharged from gaol on Saturday after serving a term for theft, was found in a drunken condition in the building. The owner of the property tried to remove him, but a constable had to be called to assist. The accused's condition was brought about mainly through drinking methylated spirits.

The dwarfs in Hungary, numbering 261 have formed a union to petition for halfprice tickets on trains, trams, and buses and also for theatres and cinemas, on the ground that their size does not justify full payment. Next year Budapest is to be the scene of a Convocation, of Dwarfs ... to -decide their world rights.