ONEHUNGA POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1927, Page 16

ONEHUNGA POLICE COURT.

(Before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M.) BREACH OF ORDER. James B. Stewart denied having procured liquor during the currency of his prohibition order. Constable F. W. Johnston said he found Stewart staggering down Queen Street, Oneluinga, on June 24, when he admitted having had three shandies in the city. He was taken to the police station. Stewart declined Mr. Poynton's invitation to <ro into the box, but strenuously denied the charge. He said he could honestly say he had not had any liquor on the day when the constable saw him. He had witnesses to prove it, but unfortunately they were at work, and a lady friend was too ill to attend. After accused had given the police some left-handed compliments, Sergeant J. A. Cruickshank showed the S.M. a list of his previous events. Stewart was fined 40/ and 10/ costs. THEFT OF A LAMP. -~ Robert James Bethel was not present to be charged with the theft of a bicycle lamp, valued at 17/6, belonging to Mrs. Florence May Fink. Mrs. Fink said Bethel took a new lamp from her place in Queen Street on April 16 last without her authority. The lamp produced in court was not the one stolen. Bethel, at this stage, put in an appearance, and pleaded not guilty. He said' the lamp in court -was the one he borrowed from Mrs. Fink. Perhaps she could not recognise it, because he had cleaned and repaired it. As the identity of the lamp was in dispute, Mr. Poynton remarked that defendant must have taken two lamps. He must pay 12/G for one and 33/ for doing wrong. THREE MEN AND A CYCLE. Early last year Harry F. Turner sold a motor cycle to the' Pioneer Cycle Co., at Newmarket, without notifying the. police of the change of ownership. About October last the company sold the same machine to Launcelot J. Kivel without telling the police about it. The other night Constable C. Putt found the .bicycle on Mountain Koad, Mangere, without a light. The sins of all three) parties found them out, and this morni ing Kivel was fined 20/ and 13/ costs, and the Pioneer Co. the same amounti Turner's expenses amounted to 22/. ( Chas. Oscar Baker had to pay 40/ for driving a motor car without A license. He did not appear, but had told the police that he was learning to drivo at th* time of the offence. 1 i