MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) RECEIVING ALLEGED. James Lindland Anderson, a butcher aged 22, was charged that on or about April 1, 1933, at Christchurch, he received a sports coat, two shirts, eit;ht pairs of socks, and eight ties, of a total value of £3 16s, the property of Charles Thomson Morgan, knowing them to have been dishonestly ob-Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop asked that the accused be remanded until to-morrow, saying that he had been arrested on the arrival of the Tees from the Chatham Islands on Tuesday evening. , . The magistrate: Any chance of your getting bail? Accused: I think so. _ The probation officer said the accused was on license and the general position was most unsatisfactory, Chief-Detective Dunlop said the accused and another man had been terrorising the Islands for some time. Bail was refused. When an action between Messrs E. T King and T. D. O. Small was heard in the Magistrate's Court it was stated that Mr King was living in a house provided for him and his family hv the citizens of Christchurch. Mr King wishes to qualify this. He says that £lO was deposited on the house aI Northcofe from the public subscription and that since taking possession he has been paving rent, assisted for a few weeks only from the money subscribed by the public.