POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 169, 18 July 1924, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

■ (Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) With the exception of several first and second offending inebriates, all the cases before the Police Court this morning were summons cases. S ILLEGALLY ON LICENSED I PREMISES. Five men, John Sheehan. Donald McDonald, Clifford A. Jackson, Daniel i i Fitzpatrick, and Percy Henry Bush, '•who were found without lawful excuse j on licensed premises of the City Hotel after hours on June 21, were each con- ! victed and fined £2. 1 A DANGEROUS DOG. I A young lady, Margaret Brown, was charged with being the owner of 11 dog j that did attack Ellen Curtis in Station , ' Ten-ace, Remuera, on June 25 last. Senior Sergeant Rawle said that the dog, an Airedale terrier, nipped ft woman on the leg, and she complained to the police. Defendant said that her dog was only jlB months old, and was not a savage Idog. In indicting a fine of £2 the Magistrate ordered defendant to pay £1 1/ medical expenses and to destroy the dogAN UNCLEAN VEHICLE. ' A charge of using a motor van for the carriage of meat and with failing to keep the vehicle clean was pre- ' ferred against William John Daw. A health inspector stated in evidence that at 7 ajn. on June 12, while inspecting meat va«3 at Mt. Eden station, he noticed defendant's van. It had a false bottom, the grating of which was not clean. Witness informed the defendant of this. An hour later witness saw the van full of meat in Karangahape Road. Tho meat was lying on the dirty grating. i Evidence as to the dirtiness of the van was also given by a constable. Defendant said tho van had been washed the day before. He had been carting meat for 14 years, but had now given up that occupation. Mr. Poynton: You should not have done that. Senior Sergeant Rawle said that cix months ago defendant was before the Court and fined for a similar offence, when he gave the same excuse. Defendant was fined £2, and costs 11/. FRAUD AND THEFT ALLEGED. Yesterday afternoon, Theo. Walters (Mr. Dickson) appeared before Mr. J. W. Voynton, S.M., and Mr. A. Williams, J.P., on remand. He was charged with ' having converted a five-seatcr motor car to his own use, so as not to be guilty of theft, of having failed to account for £35 received from De Luen and Hardloy; oi having obtained £10 from Cecil Wallace by falsely representing that he had a Ford motor car for sale; of having stolen a Regal motor ear, the property of William Thomas, and of having obtnined £10 from Messrs. Lindsay and I Thomas, by falsely representing that he had n three years' lease of Reay's Garage, Dominion Road. After evidence had been given in respect to all the charees, accused pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence, and was committed for trial, bail £100 being allowed. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Pierce Power (50), (Mr. Singer}, who, it is alleged, indecently assaulted a girl under the age of 11 years at Northcotc on July 5, pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence,"and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. LICENSING CASES. The licensee of the City Hotel, Frodorieq James Sands OLr. Stevens) pleaded not guilty to a charge of selling liquor after hours. He was'convicted and fined £5 and costs 9/, while 1 two other charges, one of exposing liquor for sale, and one of keeping his premises open for the sale of liquor after hours, were withdrawn. ■ For supplying liquor to a person already intoxicated, a barman named Sydney H. Smith was fined 20/ and costs, the magistrate remarking that the offence was not a serious one. I Defendant had merely committed an I error of judgment. FINED FOR THEFT. Robert Whitcside, 37 (Mr. Sullivan), who appeared yesterday and was remanded for sentence on a charge of l stealing a tin of preserved pears valued at 2/, was this morning convicted and lined £5. DECISION RESERVED. i His Worship reserved his decision in . the case against Albert Litchfield, charged with failing to exhibit at his office a notice that he was a licensed land agent. j The defendant admitted that he himi self had not made any such notification outside the office, but explained that when lie took out a license as land agent he had agreed to go into partnership with Murrie Spiers, who at the , time was established as a land agent ;in Vulcan Lane. The partnership did J not eventuate, and defendant notified j the clerk of the court that ho -was returning to tho New Zealand Insurance Co. He had frequented Murrie Spiers' ,' office, but no business was done, and it i was never really his office, because lie did not set up as a land agent. . Mr. Terry, for defendant, submitted that section 21, under which the offence i was laid, did not provide for any penalty and merely provided that a licensed land agent must exhibit outside his office notification that he was licensed. His Worship said he would reserve his decision. i ' - —*-■