POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 24 November 1915, Page 6

POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. F. V. Frazcr, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. One first offender forfeited bail, and one was fined a/. Mary Ann Masters (50), for a second offence, was lined 10/, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. Sarah Lamb (33), who had promised faithfully to go straight back to Helcnsyille when she appeared yesterday morn'.ng for having been unlawfully "on private premises by night, came up again for having been found drunk in Lome Street. She was sentenced to 24 hours' imprisonment, and ordered to come up for sentence to-morrow, on the understanding that if she went away to Helensville immediately on having finished her sentence she would hear nothing further of the charge. NOT FUEL CREAM. Ellen Leigh, an elderly woman, was charged that on November 2 she sold milk which was deficient in milk fat. A Health Department inspector stated that he took a sample of the milk sold by defendant at her shop, and the analysis showed a deficiency of 28.6 in milk-fat. Defendant had been warned about a similar fault in 1912, and samples taken since then had been all right. Defendant: I 6old the milk exactly as I got it. The inspector said that samples taken of the milk supplied by the persons where defendant got her supply were all right. It was just possible that the deficiency was due to carelessness in not stirring up-the milk so <as to bring the cream well through it. Defendant stated that she usually stirred the milk before supplying customers, but the milk from which the sample bad been taken had been supplied to her from the bottoms of two cans, a fact of which she complained at the time to the supplier. She did not sell cream at all in her business. His Worship decided, after hearing the defendant and cross-examining her generally concerning her business and methods, that her story was truthful, and merely ordered that she sbiuld pay 19/6 costs. A DOG AND A "DARE." Andrew Smith appeared as thp owner of a dog that on November 2nd rushed at and attacked Roy Clements at Brighton Road, Parnell. Clements' story was to the effect that I on the day in question he was standing on the street talking to two girls, when a little boy straddling the dog came along and dared Clements to put a hand on him while his dog was there. Clements made a pretence of striking the lad, and the dog caught him by the forearm. He caught the dog by the throat, and held it while he tried to soothe it, but when he let go it bit him in the hand. Other evidence showed that the dog was quite docile, but had been sooled on by the boy when Clements, rather unwisely, took up the lad's challenge. The dog itself was in Court, and made I friends with, everyone who took notice |of it, including Clemqnts. His Worship dismissed the charge, and | remarked that if Clements desired to [ recover for the 50/ medical expenses and the ten days he -was away from work I I because of the wound, he would have to I take civil proceedings.