POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

I (Before Mr. .T. W. roynton, S.M., and Messrs. C. Korgrnvp and L. J. Pcgler.j ! REMANDED. .John Wwanl Ramsey i+l > was rcmar.drd until February li on n ,-harge cf breaking and filtering hv night, tlie 1 duelling of Kiln Baker, Vim ;it Street, with intent to commit a i ; io;i\ JIF HE DIDN'T FIND HIS SIXPENCE. i Patrick Kecgan iisi ndmitle.l. .. charpe. of 1,.-iv- "-1.i1.• ilrunk ill ( uMonis Street yeMcrdiiy. v Soninr-SiTprant Kdwnrrli. s:.i,l Unit ut * !11 vi' minutes I , "* , la ~' "'L' l, '- Con-j I stiililo Birch observed Kcefian. who was, ! calling "in "If I don't find the six-pcii.o s J that I lost 1 will rip fomelvidy up the t ■ centre." Aci-iihCd li;i<l a email knife in a I his hand. i i Mr. l'oyntoiii Tlio sooner you mc kept I under coniml I lie letter. A man i= t doing seven years ~..«• tor what you j•_ threatened, Fined CI or .-even days. DISTURBED FROM SLEEP. ' On a charge, of lroinj: found on pro- , misos in course of erection in Anzan j Avenue at !).3(> last night, .losepli I'efer ; I Hayes C2S: whs convicted ami ilisrha'rgcd. Hγ said that ho pimply wan- j |dercd in t,, .-lcco. ! TRESPASSED ON RACECOURSE. For lref]viissinp on the Alexandra ' racecourse during the progrcM of a ' trotting meeting, Charles Matthew ' O'Malley, who did unl appear, was lined £1 ami costs 7/. THEFT OF £1. , .\ jonnf! woman who pleaded guilty 1 In siValing a £1 note from a fellow- • I worker was admitted to probation for ( 11 months. • ( PROCURED LIQUOR. For procuring li(pior while he \va« prohibited, IS. Nottingham was lined £2 ami ivistß. COMPANIES PROSECUTED. The Commissioner of Stamp Duties, for whom Mr. Uulibln appeared. prosecuted se\eral companies for failing to pay the annual license toe for registration. The Oneroa Land Company, Ltd. (Mr. Sinclair! and the, X.Z. Motor Agency. Ltd. (Mr. Short), were each fined t2. posts 7.'. plus solicitor's fee (£3 3/1. ■ BREACH OF THE ARMS ACT. ■I. I!. Robertson, auctioneer, for fail- I ' inir to keep a record of the sain of fire- I arm?, was lined 12 and costs, and on 1 ; another ,-liarge, of dclivrring a rifle | without a permit, he was convicted and ■ ' ordered to pay costs. SEQUEL TO COLLISION. ' i A- h ,-orpiel to a collision between ft ' i| Xorth-hound cxprcFs from Auckland and i a mntnr lorry ut the Elake Street, level i cro.-sins in November, the driver of the ' ' lorry, .lohn Wilson I Mr. Osburnc Lilly I, •■ was prosecuted by the Itnilwar Depiirt- ■ lneiit for failing to stop before rrosxiiis • the line, and alio for attempting to pass ; • o\er the railway line when it was not i clear. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Hubble, who conducted* the ease 1 on behalf of (he Railway Department, 1 bronplit evidem-e. to uli.-iw thai the driver !-I sounded a blast on the whistle before ■ the .ro-i-iiiL' was reaehrd. Defendant's - lorry nearly pot cli-iir of the line, but | I some timber whirl, ,vaa overhangiiiß was! . I caught liy the enpine. The lorry was su I I badly damnped as to be useless, f Drfendiiiit and several other witnesses . state,l th.it Blake Street was a partiou- . larl\ had crossing, and that it was ,- impos«ililr to see more than two chains ■ down the railway line when l.'ift away i from it. They also state,! that no i- whistle was sounded by the driver of the 1 I locomotive. At this stape Mr. Poynlon expressed „ his intention of viowing the Blake j Street crossing, along with the two , Justices. Decision was reserved till , Monday. FRUITGROWERS FINED. s Acting on requisitions under the .! Shops mid Offices Art signed by a ! majority of occupiers of fruiterers' shops in the city and suburbs, the Minister of Labour recently fixed the closing ri hours of these shops at !• p.m. on Mon- - i days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for the period from November 1 jjtu April 30, and 7 p.m. on the same n tlays for the remainder of the year. Ten fruiterers were each charged with keep- ; ing their shops o p t .,, i( fter i) p.m. on December 15. Earl, of tlip clofentlants was lined £1 and ordered to pay 7/ court (1 ASSAULT IN A TRAMCAR. " As a sequel to a little affair in a Iranis - ear bound for Heme Bay on Tuesday last, .T. D. Xicholson was charged, on a private information, with assault inn j William Park (Mr. Cahill). Complainant stated that he was chief steward of the steamer Kauri. Defendant had made him a uniform coat which he would not accept and, as a result, bad feeling had arisen between y the two. On Tuesday last in a tranid car. Xicholson approached complainant t and struck him several blows on the •o face. This evidence was corroborated 1- by a conductor. Xicholson stated that ,- complainant first raised his hand to o him its if about to strike him, when witit ness pot in first and dealt him a blow, r, Park had refused to accept a coat which iP witness had made. In imposing a lino „, of £.">, plus costs £3 2/, the magistrate v I advised defendant to adopt some other j, I method of collecting his account. Half Df I the tine was ordered to go to Park. ' ( k BREACHES OF LICENSING ACT. ' Herbert Varley was charged with I? failing to notify that liquor was to be taken inio tiie no-license district of ; r Point Chevalier. William Iddison with rs taking liquor into a no-license district, ]d and in connection with the same set of circumstances. Harry Hudson was chnrped with procuring the commission of an offence. Sergeant Klnnngiiii said that he intercd \iewed the three defendant-. all of lie whom were quit" frank It up ,v, | ty that a kep of ■•; was m 1;..., ;,, ~ "<J house in the no-iicelise distri, i mi a n, Saturday nfternoon in readin -s for ;t •c- picnic on tin- following day. lie Varley stated that the keg was not n<l mcanl to be taken info thr-'uii-lircn»c in area and thai he did not know it was :id goinp there. Counsel for bldison piiliin mitted thnt Iddison. who was a new ir- arrival in New Zealand, simply took the h, beer where he wa« directed in his motor p- bus. (in behalf of Hudson counsel s.iid is, that he was merely guilty of a technical ■d. breach and asked that the information i'a should be dismissed under section 02 n- of the Justices: of the l'eaco Ac". od -Mr. Poynton dismissed thn charge oh against Hudson under action ','J or thn ad J.P- Act. while Iddison wa» convicted pji j and ordered to pay costs, and \arlcy hv "ns fined £1 and cost«.