POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 90, 17 April 1922, Page 4

POLICE COURT.

! (Before .Messrs. E. G. Two'rnH and X. A. Gubb, J.P.'s.) Twenty persons, male and female, irfieij j had celebrated Easter in a moist manner I came before the Court charged with drunkenness. First offenders were con* victed and discharged, and others were fined amounts varying from £1 to £3. William Parker (41) received a punch at a Xewmarket Hotel, and passed it on to William Young, an innocent by* stander. He was fined £2 for assaultCharles Kean (3S) excused himself for having used obscene language at Freeman's Bay by saying he was drunk and did not know what he was doing. ae "'* few beers went to his head."' He was prohibited and fined £2. Alexander Copley (21) refused to par his tram fare on Saturday whilst "under the influence.' . The ride cost him £1| with Court cost additional. "You have beeu hanging about the waterfront too long-," said Mr. Twohill to a little Liverpool fireman named Charles Lawrence McCartney. "You want to get away from those" undesir- ; able associates of Yours. There is a, good road leading into "the country, and yoa wouldn't be the first man to put hi« swag on his shoulder and tramp it—for his own benefit/ , McCartnev was convicted and ordered to pay 2/6 cab hire for having been drunk, and for having obtained liquor whilst prohibited he was convicted and_ ordered to come up io? i *ent*?nce in six months' time.