MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21199, 25 June 1934, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

SATURDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) INSUFFICIENT LIGHTS Pleading guilty to driving a motorcar without the required lights Edwin Leslie Pelin was ordered to pay costs. CONVERTING A CAR Theodore Frederick Scott pleaded guilty to charges of being in charge of a car while intoxicated, with converting a car, the property of E. E. C. Hyde, to his own use, and with driving a car without a license. Sub-Inspector Powell said that accused had tried to start the car and had been taken in charge before he could get it started. Accused said he did not remember trying to take the car. He had been out of work for three weeks. The magistrate: Did you lose your job through drink?— Yes. Are you prepared to take out a prohibition order?— Yes. Accused was fined £5 and costs on the first charge, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months on the second charge, a condition being that he should take out a prohibition order, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs on th<- third charge. DRUNKENNESS CHARGE D&vid James Edwards, a labourer, aged 35, was fined 10s and costs, in default 24 hours in prison for drunkenness, and 20s, in default three days in prison, for casting offensive matter in a public place. COLLECTION OF MONEY John Frederick Amos pleaded not guilty to a charge of obtaining money by false pretences. Sub-Inspector Powell asked for a remand until Tuesday. Mr D. W. Russell, who appeared for Amos, asked for the suppression of his name. Amos was a minister of religion and the accredited representative of the Moravian Church in New Zealand. He understood the church had many adherents in the Dominion, and it would not be fair to them to give the case publicity before it was tried. Amos had collected the money to hand it over to the Rev. P. Revell. The sub-inspector said Amos had no authority to collect for the House of Help. The magistrate: We have only his word that be is a minister of religion. After consulting with his client, Mr Russell £3id Amos had been ordained in Ghristchurch last November by the Rev. R. W. Parson. The magistrate: Is that a fictitious name?

Accused said Mr Farson was now in Sydney. Mr Revel], who was in court, said he had never heard of Mr Parson, but he might have been in Christchurch. In granting bail of £SO, with one surety of £SO, the magistrate said he would not suppress accused's name. If he ordered suppression the accused would be referred to as a minister of religion, and there were many ministers in Christchurch. THEFT OF PRAM Ernest John Manly (Mr Roy Twyneham) pleaded not guilty to the theft of a pram, valued at £4 15s. He said he had taken the pram to show it to his wife, but he intended to return it. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon, and was ordered to pay costs.