THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20203, 4 April 1931, Page 8

THE COURTS.

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, THUBSDAY. (Before Mr E.D. Mosley,, S.M.) , LICENSING BREACHES.

John Callinan, Edward Conaidine, and John McQuillan, charged with being on.thd licensed premises of the Oxford Hotol after hours, were each fined 20s and costs. For supplying liquor to a person apparently under the age of 21, Mortimer Patrick Corliss, licensee of the New Brighton Hotel, was convicted and discharged. For selling liquor after hours he was fined £8 and costs, and for opening premises for. the sale of liquor after hours was convicted and discharged. Frances Coriiss, a person other than the licensee of the New Brighton Hotel, was fined £5 and costs for supplying liquor to a person apparently under the age of SI, and was convicted and discharged on a charge of supplying liquor at a- time'when premises were' directed to. he closed. Katharine Julia Mackay (Mr C. S. Thomas) wac fined £2 and costs for sending a person under the age of 21 years to licensed premises for liquor.

THEFT OF DRESS. Elsie Edith Patrick, aged 19, waa charged with stealing a dress valued at £llss os, tlin property of Nina Mary MoHwraith. Chief-Detective 7. Carroll said the accused had been employed at a house as a nursemaid, and when she .left took the dress away with her. Mi- A. J. Malley, who appeared for the aocused, said that spite seemed to have been the motive for the theft. Patrick was con/vioted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, and during that period _to moke restitution of £1 15s 6d. An application for suppression of. her name was reifused. , OEECIT BY FRAUD.

. Harold Haig Hardgrave, a window-cleaner, aged 89, was ohaiged with obtaining credit to the extent of £2 10s from Ellen McLean by falsely representing that he was employed in the Post Office. v >.' Chief-Deteotive Carroll eaid the accused had gone to a woman who was in poor circumstances and taken a room in. her bouse. Aooused told her he was in the Post Office and had just been ' transferred from Timaru. He did not pay and the woman became suspicious. Hardgrave was only just out of gaol and had a job hawking boot polish. Aocused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. - DISOBDERLY BEHAVIOUR,

Norman Bruce Stewart, a labourer, aged 84 (Mr W. J. Stacey), and Edward Petty, a miner, aged 80, were charged with behaving in 'a disorderly manner in Manchester street.

Sergeant D. Hyland said the two men had been singing, and dancing on the. pavement. Both aocused were fined £2 and costs, in default 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour. ASSAULT. James Hopkins (Mr C. 8. Thomas) was charged with assaulting Alice Ann Womersley and with being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found by night in the enclosed premises of a block of fiats in the City. Sergeant D. Hyland said the aocused had gone into the building and knocked at the door of a flat and asked if a Mr Gosling lived there. A woman answered the door, and after some conversation he had taken hold of her arm. On the charge of assault, Hopkins was fined £3 and costs, in default 14 days' imprisonment.' The charge of being a rogue and vagabond was dismissed. .CIVIL CASES. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) Judgment for the plaintiff by default was given in the following cases:—Jones Motors, Ltd., v, J. McKay, £93 16s 6d; A. 8. Paterson and Co., Ltd., v. J. HoConnick, £43 lis 8d; Haling and Co., Ltd., v. W. H. Matravera, £99 19s 6d; Williams, Stephens and Co., Ltd., v. B. J. Sullivan, £6 8a 7d; Daniel McClintock v. JBobert Thompson, £2O 6s; W. G. Deyell v. J. W. Lamberton, £lO 16a; J. Ballantyne and Co.. Ltd., v. Stanley Smith,-£1 13s; H. Bromley v. N. Smith, £37 3s 2d; E. E. Munns v. E. Klee, £7 12s 6d; Beath and Co* Ltd., v. ■B. Lovell-Smith, £3 18s 83; the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Ltd., v. John Dunoanj £2 16s 6d;. D. W. Thomson v. A, Jami won, £1 6s 6d; Benjamins, Ltd., v. L Chambers,. £8 13s 8d; ■ <T. "W. Mcllroy. ▼. A. 8. iCampbell, £4l9s> W/ T. Glasgow ▼. E. .Hammi.ll, £4 4a: E. G. Vivian v. V. Tobeck, £2; Ashby, Bergh and Co., Ltd., v. W. A. Guy, 15s 6d: the Canterbury Industrial Society v. 23. M. Ohlson, £8 fie Sd; Davidson and Wauchop, Ltd., v. G. Kirby, £3 19s 6d; same v. A. Newman, £1 16s lid; Diack and Joyce, Ltd.', v. B. J. Cornwall, £5 lit; Aulsebrook and Co., Ltd., Mojmihan, £B4SsSd; Beath and Co., .Ltd., ▼. E. Beattie, £2 6s 6d.

JUDGMENT SUMMONS. ■ I/. R. Small waa ordered to pay P. 7. Rawlinge £39 19* 6d and costs forthwith, in default 8? days' imprisonment' with hard labour, DEFAULT OF MAINTENANCE. Hrnry Sjpith, a labourer, agsd 47, for default of maintenance payments, was eon" victed and sentenced to six, months' imprisonment, tha warrant to be suspended provided ha pays £25 forthwith" 00 w arrears, 80s„ a week maintenance, and £4 8a costs., Accumulated . arrears of maintenance totalled <lO7 up to January. 1931. RESISTING POLICE. Claraitoa, Martin, a labourer, aged -21 (Mr A. J. , Malley), pleaded guilty to three charges—drunkenness, resisting a polk* connubia in the execution of bis duty, and wilfully damaging,* police waterproof over* coat, the property of the' New; Zealand Government, tothe extent of £3 6* 8d, '-thereby committing mischief. He was . convicted andflnedlOsand «*to,' in default s* hours' imprisonment, on the dnmtonneas charge; for (resisting tha police..he was- fined >4B„ indefaultl4d«e' impriaonment; and on th* third charge was convioted and ordered pay the datfage to the coat,.-in default 14 clays' imprisonment. CONVERSION OP ;MOTOB-OYOLB. The unlawful conversion of a -tnotor-cycls from, Monica ■ Park., /on Match' 14th *t> charged against three yoatha-rWiUiam! Ford, aged 21, living at 14 Kenilworfh street, his brother, Bevben Henry Fo?d, a 'labourer, aped 18, of the same address, and Thomaft. Henry Pbillipsop, a m<Har-driver, aged 17 years, of 47 Wordsworth. street.Mr R. Twyaeham appeared for Phillipson, and all threepleaded guilty to the charge.' William Ford also, pleaded' guilty to (barges of affixing an inoorrect number plate to a motor-cyolei and driring a motor-cycle without a license. - - , '.The conversion charge was substituted ,for one of theft of tha motor-oycle. Chief-DetectiveJ.: Carroll state J : 'that the: motor-cycle, valued at £45, was, stolen' from Monica Park, and nothing mqre was" seen' of jt until ■ days. later," when ■.tlie:,ft6-, otised, William - Ford,' was seen 1 riding it' in Addin&ton. He had fixed incorrect card-' board mtmbe'r-;<ates to it. 1 William Ford and Phillipson. seemed to have: been prime movers' in the' offence. Damage to the machine waa estimated at £S, and tool* valued at £1 .were- missing. '■ Mr Twyneham submitted that the ,boys had hod an equal, share in thA offence. William Ford was convicted and ordered to be imprisoned for, three- months; on the conversion charge, Phillipson was and fined'fiS,'"and ordered: to' pay £1 part of U»e damage to-the' motorcycle, in, default >one month's imprisonment,- and': Btuben Henry Ford waa convicted and re-« manded until 'April 9th, pendint; receipt ofthe Probation Officer's report.' On th» other charges William Ford was convicted and discharged. Phillipson wsi* given .14 days in whioh to pay his fine.

MINOR OFFENCES. For crossing a railway-line while the aig>naltt were against them Thomas j Guy was*' fined 20s and posts and Vivian Jonxt'tSomei* •et-Thomas 10s and costs, ? For a breach of a prohibition order Frederick Jamea Jones waa fined, £2 and costs, in default>l4 days' imprisonment, and' William Jamee Pratt (Mr' W, J, jStaeey) a similar amount. They Vere both allowed 24 hours in which to pay. John Hoppingr-was convicted'for having an unregistered firearm in his possession* and, an order was made for the oonfisoation of the revolver. , . 'For using obscene language -Annie Elisabeth Knipe was convicted • and j sentenced 'to - 14 daye' hard labour. she was allowed -24 licurs in which to pay. 1 CHILDREN'S COURT. At a sitting ol the Children's Court following the Magistrate's Court Mr Mosley or- , tiered a youth under 17 years of age lobe placsd under the supervision of the CEild Welfare Officer for a period of three years. The youth admitted the unlawful conversion of -motor-cycle, ▼®lu©<3 , W. J. Siacey appeared for him. \ p