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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16851, 3 June 1920, Page 5

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■ (Before Mr V. G. Day, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Three first offenders were each finer! ss, in defnn't 524 lionra' gaol. David Evans, slias H. McKay, and John Gray, were each fined 10s, in default 4S houre' impri.'orm-ent. REMANDED. Herbert Hillsborough Garland, charged with helpless drunkenness, and with procuring liquor during the currency of fi prohibition order, was remanded for a «weok for medical treatment. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. George Brcderick was convcted r.nd discharged for being drunk and disorderly, and convicted and fined £3 for using cbsceno. language. MAINTENANCE. Myrtle Santy was ordered to pay 2s 6d per week toward? the maintenanca of an inmate of an institution. Emma Evans Barnett secured a maintenance order of £2 a week for herself and three children from Ernest Sidney Barnett. UNSTAMPED RECEIPT. G. A. Johnstone was •fined la and costs on each of sis charges of r.oi stamping receipts. THEFT. Frederick Geo. McNaughton and Victor J. Tliwaite3, charged with the theft of socks, were convicted and ordered to corns up for sentence when called upon within six months. Thomas McNicholl, charged with stealing an ovcrcoat, valued at .£l, the property of Geo. Giles, was fined £2, in default M days' imprisonment. DISMISSED. A charge against Frederick John Elmos of the theft of cigarettes valued at CS3, from the emergency train accompanying the Royal train from Arthur's Pass to Cbristchurch, was dismissed.' A charge rgainst William Stanley Chappel'. of iho theft of an ovcrcoat, was dismissed. , j A charge against George Taylor of cruelty to an animal, was dismissed. | • CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. j •John Pounsford, charged with cruelty to animals, was convicted and ordered to pay witness's expenses. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. James Baxter Ker pleaded not guilty to assault and robbery, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Charges against hrn of being an id'o and cl:?-.rder)y person, ami of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, were adjourned sine die.