MAGISTRATES COURT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 7

MAGISTRATES COURT.

THURSDAY. \ (Before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.) MOTOR-CAR ART UNION ILLEGA William Thomas Charles Wortl< and Stephen Francoist Willard we ?ach charged with selling certain ti fasts giving authority to compete in , lottery or scheme whereby a moto car was to be disposed of by chanc contrary to the Gaming Act, 1908. Mr C. S. Thomas, appearing for eac of the defendants, pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Edwards said tl offence concerned the sale of ticke in the art union of the Wellington S John Ambulance Association, in whic a motor-car was to liavc been tl: prize. The tickets were one penn each. A sergeant of police purchase one from a seller—one of the defenc ants—in High street. On a later ctat fle purchased a second ticket, the titte from the other defendant. Ther wan very little on the ticket to indi cate ? in what manner the motor-ca would be disposed of. When the tic *£ts were sold in Christchurch at firs toe police issued a warning that th continuance of their sale would lea< to prosecution. The tickets were with drawn, but later the two defendant came to Christchurch and sold tickets The Minister for Internal Affairs ha< given permission for the disposa o£ the motor-car by raffle. On Augus i ** the drawing took place in tin Opera House, Wellington, the proee "lire resembling that used in th< ™'SWing of iarger art union; Jor which permission was obtained. The winning ticket--oX2233—had not been produced bitf thai did not justify a suggestior 'nat, as the motor-car had not beer "«Po3ed of, no offence had been committed, That the motor-car was no) claimed was not the fault of the pro-nators—-their intention was to dispose #f lt by raffle. Jtor the defendants Mr Thomas said there had been nothing surrep"ttous about the sale of the tickets. * Or. the promoters the art union had Men a chapter of accidents. The WclWon' Tramway Entertainers, who done a great deal for charity, had «Wrtaken to assist the Wellington SWohn Ambulance Association. At «-T ? Was the intention to dispose of •motor-car for shooting competitions. Jfllt was ruled to be illegal, and the was started as the organhaving secured the motor-car, > the soup." The Minister for uVS®* Affairs had said the art union fluid hot be permitted, but the pro- • Astern had to go on with it. imi? ea ¥ n S °£ the profit from the art M r Thomas said that the net H to the St. John Ambulance AsS ex P«tcd to run into though of pounds. was less than £IOOO. the men. selling the tickets Of one penny for that work. Jnh» « two defendants one was a St. andV mbulance m an out of worK Wen,] 1 ® other was a member of Ihe whft v! j n . Tramway Entertainer.?, jiuai given up his two weeks' anchu»h mi o the tickets in Christcase was not the first kid, the art union. In Auck*W w had been convicted and t costs and several others to ho ? , Pay costs. Cases were said W^»ston inS hy Dunedin and also jn said that the fact re~®t before the art union was the Minister for Internal Would ■IS ri £ e< * the promoters that it Permitted. Each deZi ann De convicted and fined . •cost®. PROHIBITION ORDER- \£. oc tpr, a domestic, aged 37, i in default 18 hours' imoe -of: committing

an indecent act in a public place, and £3 with costs, in default one month'; imprisonment, on a charge of procuring liquor during the currency of s prohibition order. The breach of th< prohibition order was Proctor's fourth since its issue. Richard Edward Roe was fined £2 and costs, in default 14 days' imprisonment, for supplying Proctor with liquor. He was allowed 14 days to L. pay * jy THEFT OF CLOTHES, re Cecil Arthur Hensley, a labourer, c- aged 23, pleaded guilty to a charge a of stealing a suit of clothes valued at r- £5, the property of John William Mce, Conway, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard : h labour. Chief Detective W. H. Dunlop said >e the accused stole the suit from a hotel ts during Grand National week and sold t. it for 12s 6d. He was before the court h on a similar charge last month. Ie HEARING ADJOURNED. I James Dowdall, a farmer, of SumZ mit road, Cashmere (Mr W. F. Tracy), pleaded not guilty to charges of asp sault and using obscene language. Sub-Inspector G. B. Edwards said ~ the defendant had allowed his cattle to run on a scenic reserve near Kcn-

I nedy's Bush. Mr H. G. Ell, who was £ in charge of the reserve, had written ?. to him asking him to remove his cattle 4 but the request had not been com- * plied with. Mr Ell had then given ins structions to some reiief workers i working under him to put the cattle j off the reserve. This had been done, : and Dowdall had then committed the t offences. !; After evidence had been given by Henry James Tasker, a relief worker, and James Dick, foreman of a re--3 Hef workers' gang on the Summit road, the hearing was adjourned until September 21, to allow a witness to be - called for the defence. ' LICENSING CASES. I John Griffen, licensee of the Pro- ' vincial Hotel (Mr F. D. Sargent), , pleaded guilty to charges of selling liquor after hours and with supplying liquor to a drunken person. Isabella ■ May Griffen, his wife, for whom Mr Sargent also appeared, pleaded guilty to supplying liquor after hours, being a person other than the licensee. Mr Sargent said the police had gone

to the hotel on a Sunday and hafound two men in the bar. Griffe; had said they stayed there the pre vious night, and further that he di< not know they were in the bar. H had had no idea that one of the mei was drunk. Under the conditions o the lease Griffen would be involve! in a straight loss of £1250 if his licens. was endorsed. The magistrate sai< Griffen had several conviction against his name during the last tw< vears. and he would be failing in hi: dutv if he did not take steps to brinj the matter before the licensing com mittee. For selling liquor after hour: Griffon would be convicted and fmcc £lO and costs and his license en dorsed, and for supplying a drunker person he would be convicted anc dNehiirgod. Mrs OrilToi'. would. b< convicted and lined £5 and costs. CIVIL CASES. (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) Judgment by default was given for imirififT in each of the following S-T. C. Care v. J. Scott. £2 15s; D A Livingstone v. Mrs Agnes Cross•u' pr f= q . f Wilson v. S. Grainfr>r £3 18s 10d; Commissioner of Taxes f wSter Chiles Thiele, £1 19s 9d; Cteffirch Cfty Council v » William Heaton, £25 10s 2a, saxxie v. AiwWmrv Stone, £23 13s 4d; same v cSrief Thomas TrebHcock, £2l la 3d; same v. Walter £lO

Thomas Harrington, £2O 12s 2d; same v. Henry Yates, £1 3s Gd; same v. Mrs Minnie Lucy Maude Irving, £24 4s 6d; same v. Richard William Austin Griffiths. £2O 9s 2d; same v. Frederick Charles Bigwood, jun., £23 5s 2d; same v. Arthur Warwick Dawson, £22 lis 0d; same v. William Fox, £23 3s 2d; same v. George Mapstone, £l4 14s lid; same v. Mrs Daisy Selina Lyons, £lB 7s 6d: same v. James King Thomson and William Blunt Thomson, £l2 4s Id; same v. John Robert Prisk, £25 19s 8d; same v. Joseph Fitzgerald, £l7 10s 3d; same v. George Frederick Straw, £ls 14s lOd; New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., v. J. Murray, 12s; same v M. Johnston, 4s lOd; same v. A.: Holmes, costs only; Andersons, Ltd., v. W. Miiler, £l7 ]ss 9d; Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board v. M. A. McCarthy, trustee in the estate of M. McCarthy, deceased, £ls 3s sd; M. J. Thomson, as assignee in the estate of Sarah Jane Grieve, v. Mrs Allred, £6 6s: H. C. Urlwin, Ltd., v. J. Barter. £2l 16s lid; same v. A. V. Voyce, in business as Southbridge Printing Company, £4 18s 6d; G. J. Roud v. J. W. Beaumont, 7s 6d; same v. E. Carney, 10s; Francis Charles Alais Atkinson v. Mrs Ivy Mary Tuaine, £l3; Arthur Philip Alan Nicholls v. Isaac James Wilson, £27; J. Morgan v. E. Middleton, £24 14s Gd.