MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21648, 5 December 1935, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

j WEDNESDAY | (.Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) ILLEGAL NETTING For placing a herring net in Taranaki creek at Walkuku, a stream for acclimatised fish, Harry Lester Clarkson and Herbert George Manning* for ! each of whom Mr H. P. Smith ap- | peared, were each fined 20s and ordered to pay costs. Mr M. J. Gresson, who represented the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, said that it was not suggested that the men were poaching in any way. Mr Smith said that the men depended on whitebait fishing, and as it had been a very bad season they had only made about £5, whereas they usually made £.50. It was impossible to net trout in the back water. NEW BRIGHTON TRAFFIC CASES. The following traffic cases from New Brighton were dealt with: —Cycling on footpath, Robert Anderson, Charles Brown, Frederick J. Evans, each fined 10s and orSered to pay costs; James Voice ordered to pay costs only. Cycling without a light: Edward Henderson and Cecil Thompson each lined 10s and ordered to pay costs. Failing to keep to the left: Douglas G. Ellis fined 20s and ordered to pay costs, and for driving without a license fined 5s and ordered to p>y costs. FAILURE TO CLOSE SHOP For failing to close his shop at the specified time, Joseph Duncan Shirrcfl's was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs. RANGIORA (Before Mr H. A- Young, S.M.) Charles Lindsay, licensee of the Cust. Hotel, was charged with selling liquor after hours, Charles Lindsay, jun., with supplying liquor after hours, and Henry Young, James Pickering, and Lawrence Gordon Grant, farmers, of the Cust district, with having been found on licensed premises after hours. On the application of Mr E. D. R. Smith, who appeared lor the defendants, and with the consent of the police, further charges against Lindsay, I sen., of exposing liquor for sale after J hours and with assisting Pickering, j Young, and Grant in committing the oilence of being on licensed premises were withdrawn. Sub-Inspector D. A. MncLean, of Christchurch, for the police, said that, a visit had been paid to the hotel on November 23 by a party of police from Christchurch. They found six men in the bar, one of whom was a bona fide lodger. There were five full glasses of liquor on the bar counter, and Lindsn.y, jun., was behind the counter. The licensee had been quite frank with the police. The men admitted that they had gone to the hotel to have a drink and had consumed -two before the poiee arrived. Lindsay had not been convicted previousy for after-hour trading, but the police had received several complaints and had visited the hotel before, in October, but had not found any living to warrant charges being laid. Mr Smith said Lindsay had been in the hotel about four years. Pickex--ing would take the responsibility for Young and Grant visiting the hotel, as they were dependent upon him for transport to their homes. Lindsay was not in the habit of selling liquor after hours, and it was just by chance that the men were there on that occasion. Lindsay, sen., and the son were each convicted and fined £2, and Young, Pickering, r.nd Grant were convicted ' and fined £l. William Thomas Topp, for permitting four horses to wander on a main highway, us a result of which a motortruck going to Christchurch collided with one and was damaged, was fined 15s and ordered to pay costs. Cecil Hunnibell and William Jeffreys were each, fined 5s and James Boyd 30s for riding a bicycle without a light after dark. W. L. Aynsley (Mr H. K. Kippenberger) was fined £2 for driving a motor-car on the Main North road at a speed which might have been dangerous to the public. On a similar charge, J. K. Davidson and Keith Graham were each fined 30s, John E. Tait 20s, and Thomas Jeal was ordered to pay costs only. Judgment for plaintiff, by default, with costs, was given in each of the following cases:—M. Hayes (Mr E. D. R. Smith) v. P. W. Evans, £SO; I. G. Watkins (Mr A. C. Fraser) v. R. G. Cameron, 15s.