MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16946, 22 September 1920, Page 5

MAGISTERIAL.

TUESDAY. (Beforo Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.il.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. John Jones, charged with having been found drank on the Christchurch Railway Station, and with having committed a nuisance on the platform, was lined £5 and coats on the first charge, and on the second he was convicted and ordered to com© up for Gontence when called upon. AN ESCAPEE. Dulcie Big-wood, charged with havingescaped from the Salvation Army Home while serving' a sentence in that institution, of two years for reformative treatment, was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. MAINTENANCE. Rose Broderick, for tho disobedience of maintenance order, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. On tho application j>f tho wife, separation and guardianship orders were made against Ernest Henry Ricketta, and he was ordered to pay £2 2» per week maintenance. A claim for an affiliation order against Edward Kelly wns dismissed. Hiram Cox was convicted for disobedience of a, maintenance order in respect to his wife, and wne sentenced to six wonkfcs-' imprisonment, the warrant not to be i»3ucd if defendant pays 15s <a, woek maintenance and ifi a week off the arrears. MACHINERY INSPECTION ACT. An information against G. H. Ward, for having employed an uncertificated driver on a traction en'gino, was dismissed. A. C. Whale was convicted and fined £1 for having driven a traction engine without possessing a license to do so.