MAGISTERIAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19960, 21 June 1930, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

FRIDAY. : (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS.

. Charles Henry Rochester was fined £1 and coste, in : default 48 hours*-, imprisonment, £pr dninkerineas. BY-LAW OASBS. ::

Raymond James Ramsey was ordered to pay costs, and Bert Clark was fined 10s and costs* for cycling at night without lights. For parking a motor-car without lights, Neil Aldwin Boon, - White, and Frederick Foster were each fined 10s and C ° Elijah Hepwortfe for failing to give way to traffic on the right, was and eosts. Leslie George Greaves was fined 10s and costs for leaving a car on the stand without reasonable excuse. ■ For driving a motor-car without a tail* light, William Reynolds Carey (Mr- R. Twyneham) was ordered to pay costs. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Frederick John Wormald, aged 88, and Thomas McGrath, aged 40, charged with acting in a disorderly manner while drunk, in Manchester street, were, each fined £2 and costs, in default 10 days* imprisonment. lorry driver drunk. George Rae Percy (Mr W.. R.. Lascelles) pleaded guilty to a charge of being to a state' of intoxication "while in charge of a motor-cai in Riccarton °° . ... Senior-Sergeant J. J. O.Grady said that accused had been driving a lo"y. and had got it into a drain. This had been in-the daytime. A traffic inspector had come along and removed the key, but accused persisted in trying to start the lorry. Accused had admitted having five drinks. Mr Lascelles said that accused was a married man: a meat cartage contractor from the abattoirs, end that be had had several teeth extracted on the morning in question. To build up his strength, and because of the cold he had'had two ;6r three brandies.- 'He made a plea for leniency, and-suggested that accused should take'outa prohibition order. The Magistrate said .that , all tne matters mentioned by counselhad been brought for. ward last year, when accused had appeared on ' a similar charge. He- bad then been treated leniently, being fined £5, having his license cancelled for one month, and taking out a prohibition order. Since that time he had been convicted' of-" three, breaches of' his prohibition order, and charged with theft and resisting ' the' police. The vfine 'had apparently had no effect, and adm'tted having five drinks. Apart from considering .what had : been considered previously, the safety of the public could not be overlooked- Accused was sentenced to ,14 (lays' imprisonment, and his licefiW'Busp'eiided until .June Ist, 1931.