MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr E. C. Lewey, SJW.) TRAFFIC CASES Offenders against traffic regulations were fined as follows (and ordered to pay costs unless otherwise stated):— Negligent driving; Clifford Francis Courtney, £2; Victor Henry Seymour Pulley, £2. . ' Failing to give way: Frederick Charles Baine, £2; William John Hales, 20s. Cutting a corner: Grenville Argyle Hart, 20s. • _ ■ Negligently riding a bicycle: James Thomas Foulds, costs only. Cycling at night. without a light; Chris Cocks, 10s; William Don, 10s. No driver’s license: Clifford Francis Courtney, ss. REMANDED Alvin Henry Wilson, aged 18, and Huia Anzac Oglesby, aged 18, were remanded until February 21 on a charge of unlawfully converting to their own use a car, the property of T. IN. Keenan. POSSESSING REVOLVERS Charles Roland Talbot (Mr W. R. Lascelles), a plumber, aged 29, pleaded guilty to charges of being.in possession of two revolvers without a permit and carrying them without lawful, proper, or sufficient reason. Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said that the accused had just been before the Supreme Court on a more serious charge arising, from the one incident. ’ Talbot was convicted and discharged. LANGUAGE John James Porter (Mr R. A. Young) pleaded not guilty to charges of using obscene language and a disorderly manner in Ferry road. . Senior-Sergeant D. L. pal well said that Porter had gone into the Hash and Karry store in Ferry road and after purchasing some meat from tne butchery section of the shop returned later and informed the man m the shop that it was not what he had ordered. It was alleged that the defendant had used; obscene language. Porter in his evidence denied hav-ing-used the language complained of. He explained that he had returned to the shop because the meat supplied was not only the -wrong order but was rotten. One of his children had taken it home and he went back to the man who had served him and told him about it. The plan’s manner annoyed him. Another butcher came out of the shop and said. “Get a chopper to him.” He told the man -that he would wait until the shop closed and then “knock the smile off his face. He did not, however, wait to see him. Mr Young said' that Porter had not been before the court before on such a charge. He certainly had been, given advised Porter to do his best in future to keep out of trouble. On the first charge Porter was convicted and . ordered to9 on jc up for sentence if called on within 1months, and on the second charge he was ordered to enter into a bond of eort Iroen tha neace.