POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 21 July 1922, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

! " (Before Mr. J. W. Povntnii. S.M.i j ' I J CHINESE GAMBLING HOUSE. The charges again-t a number of CliinI ese in connect ion with a raid on an •alleged gaming house in Hobson Stree wc-rv further adjourned for a week. Mr. L. I. Leary. who appeared for the Chinese, -aid it would take counsel a j week to learn suflicient of rile game the (. hinesc were indulging in to prove that !il was a game of skill. I Laughter. I Chief Detective Mcllvcncy: It will I take more than a week to da that. j .Mr. Leary: From ail the information Iwe can gel about the game from the I police, it liii-.'ht be as diflicult as Chines:- ' ', '-lie.-.-, i Laughter. 1 j DISOBEDIENT SHIPS' FIREMEN. It was stated that- Joseph Donnachie. , I who was bust week convicted of having i' (disobeyed the lawful commands of the' t master of the steamer Port Lincoln, had I been placed on board his ship and gone to sea. lie na> ••discharged.'' , THEFT OF £500 ALLEGED. Ilcdley Leonard Owen (40), for whom "Mr. Inder appeared, was remanded for a week on a charge of having sto'en £o0!)i in money, the property of Frederick I Pro'hl. YOUNG GIRL TAKES TOWEL, j A sixteen-year-old girl pleaded guilty I |to having stolen a towel valued at l/.| | the property of Eva Reynolds. Mr.! | Moody, for the defendant, said his client!: |bad taken the towel from her employer) | for her own temporary use. and bad been i . [foolish enough when questioned to d.-ny . that she had the towel. It was a trivial ofleucc and conn.—-1 asked thai the :i-'j Ibe dismissed on that ground. Tin- magi--; Irate dismissed tl"- charge on condition that the defendant - ibl il wner for! the value of the i HAWKERS TO ..aVE LICENSES.; When a young msn pleaded guilty to hawking without a license, he said ho had been four months out of work and then started hacking veg-tables for a living. ■Magistrate: You can uf. a license for fl. Defendant: I have not had it. i have a wife and iwo children to keep. (Magistrate: I do not waul to be ha : on you. hut you nmst take out a !i- r 'i which is desirable in the nublic mi - - You are lined 10 . If yon don't net ~ ! ensc and come here again T will have iinno-e t he full pcnalt \. Two other defendants w imil uL penalised an.! \ arned. ! FROM PALiKSRSTON NORTH. Samuel John Co-iper was remande I forj ' a week on a charge of having stolen a motor cycle valued a: £:l". tin' property: 'of Stanley Wiles. ;>i PalnwrsUii North. • ! FORTY MILES AW HOUR. It was stated by an inspector t.ial Bert Martin, a young man. en a re-j cent evening drove a motor car down: Queen Street past Dixieland at a speed; of lictween •"'•"> and in miles an hour. Defendant pleaded guilty '-. d microns I driving and the magistrate, ohs.-nina ; Two rnomhs" time was allowed in wlii-.'i ; Ito pay. 1 :