POLICE COURT.
(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) MISCELLAICEOTrS CHARGES. Charged with having failed to provide his wife and three children with adequate maintenance, George Henry Moore, aged 39, a tramway platelayer, was ordered to make regular pavmenta of £2 a week. * Robert Thomas Dixon. having admitted an assault on Alfred Coker, "under provocation." was fined 20/, with 10/ costs. The quarrel resulted from an argument in a restaurant as to who should pay for the pineal. Minnie Harris, aged 53, was convicted and ordered to pay fl 0/6 costs on charges of drunkenness and the theft of two pumpkins from the verandah of a Hindu hawker in Grey Street. Claud McQuoid, a taxi driver, 10 years of age. borrowed a motor from the" Victoria Street rank on the night of July 14, and did not return it to the owner until 2 a.m. the next day. Mr. Endean, who appeared for the accused, who was charged with converting the car to his own use. described his act as "the silly prank of a nrodern youth." This particular "modern youth' , was fined £2 and ordered to pay 15/ costs. ' - %
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 168, 16 July 1921, Page 5
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189POLICE COURT. Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 168, 16 July 1921, Page 5
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