THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 9

THE COURTS.

MAGISTERIAL.

"WEDNESDAY.

(Before Messrs A. D. Ford and A. L. Gee, J.P.'s.) DRUNKENNESS. , A statutory first offender, who had spent the night in gao!, was convicted and fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A first offender, who had alto spent the night at the Police Station, was convicted and fined ss, in default 2+ hours' imprisonment. THREE CHARGES. Basil Claude Bailey, '27 - years of age, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness, having used obscene language in High street, and to having procured liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. On tho charge of drunkenness, he was convicted and fined ss, in default 24 hours imprisonment, but on the second charge he was convicted and sentenced to seven days imprisonment without the option of a fine. The charge of having committed a breach of his prohibition order was adjourned to January 7th.

More in sorrow than in anger, a Scotsman of small stature, who resides at Otahuhu, addressed the local body at its last meeting with a plaint concerning the amazing height attained by the grass and weeds which had invaded the lower end of Nikau road. "The grass grows alike on road and footpaths," he wrote, "and as I, like Zaccheus. am short in stature, and the Scotsman's national holiday is approaching, I am looking forward with dread to the task of finding my wav home late in the evening, niter "spending a pleasant time with some of you gentlemen. My wife will probably have to appeal to the police to organise a search, party to look for the 'wee painter' if you do not send a man along to clear the approach to our homes and take away the reproach, to the progressive borough of Otahuhu." The letter concluded with hearty Christmas greetings.