LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 4 September 1930, Page 16

LYTTELTON NEWS.

LICENSING COMMITTEE. The quarterly meeting of the. Lyttelton Licensing Committee was set down for yesterday, but as there was no business to put before the committee, the meeting was not held. * Building Society. A special meeting of the Lyttelton. Permanent Land, Building, and Investment Society was held in the Society's rooms on Tuesday night, Mr P. Hobbs presiding. For two vacancies on the committee, three nominations, those of Messrs H. H. Barnard, W. Mitchell, and J. Payne, were received. The annual-j meeting was fixed for Thursday next.' Lodge Meeting. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal City of Norwich Lodge was held on Tuesday, N.G. Bro. A. A. KayeS presiding. Sick pay amounting to £2B 6s 8d was passed for .payment.- The receipts amounted to £l3O 8s 3d. Magistrate's Court. Mr H. A. Young, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. For being unlawfully on licensed premises John Meade was convicted and fined £l, and costs 10s. John Arneil for being found on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order was convicted and fined £1 i-tnd costs 10s. For procuring liquor he was ordered to pay costs 10s. For being found on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order William Lov§ was convicted and fined 10s and costs 10s. ' Ernest Hammill pleaded not guilty to being on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order, and further, to having procured liquor duiv ing the currency of such order; The evidence showed that owing to a clerical error, in the notices issued to the hotel-, keepers, defendant was under the impression that his order had expired five days before the offence was committed. The Magistrate said defendant would receive the benefit of the error and the charge would be dismissed as trivial under Section 92 of the Justices-of the Peace Act. Golf. The Diamond Harbour Ladies' Golf Club will play a-sealed handicap match on Sunday for a trophy presented by Mrs A. White-Parsons.. An* inter-club match between teams representing the Lyttelton Ladies' Club and the Bichmond Hill Ladies' Club, Sumner, will be played at Charteris Bay to-day. An unofficial men's match, between teams representing the Hagley Club and the Lyttelton Club, will also be played at Charteris Bay to-day. Following is the draw for the semifinal for the Ronald Miller .Memorial Cup: B. Erwin and Miss E. Ayers play L. Barnard and Miss E. Bundy; H. Lee and Miss E. White-Parsons play H. E. Ayers and Mrs J. Hudson. '

Heavy Fine for False Alarm. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday a young man who pleaded guilty to having. given a false alarm of fire, was fined £25. John Bichard Huston, aged 26 years was charged under the Fire Brigades A.ct of 1926, with having given a false alarm of fire. He did not appear, but was represented by Mr A. W. Smithson, who entered a . plea, of guilty. Sergeant W. H. Dunlop said that on August 14th a false alarm had been given at 11.20 p.m. from the switchbutton outside the fire station in Oxford street. The two constables on duty were at the Railway Station at the'time 3 tb ? »^ 8t train from Christchurch had arrived a few minutes earlier. The constables remembered seeing a party firn of fou . r , y°ung men going up the fire station side of Oxford street. When £•«« B °Ji?s ed the consta hles ran up Jut ß il« m 6? 0n but there was no on! outside. The next night Constable Mannix accosted Husto? as he again arrived by the last train, and Huston irm a Th J i ha l he had the alarm. The defendant was in a good SKTA 1 * 1 a fid defendant was not oni n/!l pe ' Btabl ,® man, and °. n ® of the usual larrikin type. On defend™* 0 " WWch tlle alarm given from the thev D&MAd tiT 1 J 1 80me com P an ions. As imade t ! ®, fire Nation Huston Lad Pressing bis friends about b 5 r tton and waking all actuallv tin?' • 4.^ ad 110 i Q tenticra of hi s £ P SS . ing tlie b ut ton but flung f P^ Pence' ence ' a *d ofTh e eI Lf n ld + , to r h The alarm was he stormnd that once started, could not s&tioffl' n^ Pt from : ™ ide the than Hmtnn more surprised sounding He ? n , thesi * en commenced Polioe * admitted to the W ha the alarm and had

also seen the brigade and offered to tion to the brigade for ttaHaHHH had been put to. Vnd&r -aHHH stances, Mr Smithso'n the case was one in whi&SBHH could be extended. ' In reply to the : Dunlop said that false very prevalent in Lyttelton||HHfl only of two in two yearQMBBB having been given in ignozsuHHH coolies off an overseas siren was very loud, whole town. Eleven brigade, which was a turned out in response The Magistrate -said was liable, to a without the option, or to ~£sO. The offence was In Christchurch during one hundred malicious been given and some representatives of Wellington and asked' to alter the penalty to'|aHSBHH without the option of' a. the difficulty of and the. seriousness Lyitelton ihe: different, and Ihere alarms. However, t brigade had bees homes and the* whole consideration that it was alarm for a long goocf report of defendant, send him to gaol. the warning that in the CVwMIBHjM cases of malicious falflfl would be '.a strong offenders being sent be necessary to inflict as a deterrent,' and' ddf fined £25, and "costs of the fine going to tMfIHHH authority (the Fire. Brigade. until September amount. :<^mB|BB|SB