MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21792, 26 May 1936, Page 18

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) INTOXICATED MOTORIST Pleading guilty to a charge of being Intoxicated while in charge of a car m Colombo street, Ronald James Hector Jones, for whom Mr P. P. J. Amodeo appeared, was fined £lO and bis license was cancelled for 12 months. Sub-Inspector D. A. Mac Lean said the r ecused bad been driving a car which collided with another about 7 o’clock on Saturday evening. After the collision it was noticed that the accused was intoxicated, and a constable took him to the police station. Mr Amodeo said it was not a bad The accused had had three beers on Saturday and unfortunately an accident bad occurred. The accused had been out of employment for some time and had recently obtained a position as a lorry driver. Mr Amodeo asked that his license should not be cancelled. "I can almost be dogmatic in saytog that offenders are not going to their licenses,” said the magistrate in fining accused £lO and cancelling his license for 12 months. REMANDED Charged with converting to his own ityf. a car valued at £SO, the property of Walter Johnston Mac Gibbon, Thomas Edward Reeve was remanded until June 1. Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said Reeve was arrested on the evening of May 23. There would probably be four or five charges, and two younger men. who would be brought before another court, were involved. ANOTHER CHANCE Horace Hartman was charged with stealing a clock, valued at £3, the property of Mabel Victoria Dunlop, and with being drunk in St Asaph street. On the first charge he was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 month*, and on the other be was convicted and discharged. Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop said the two charges were apparently closely related. The clock had been stolen from the Imperial Hotel. Hartman's record was anything but gpod, a« be had 11 previous convictions. Asking for another chance, Hartman said be had a job to go to and would take out a prohibition order against himself. The magistrate said he would give the accused another chance, but he warned him against further offences. TWO CHARGES Charged with being drunk in a public place and with assaulting a female, John Henry Sewell Nisbett was remanded until June I. CHARGE OF FIGHTING Colin Curtis and Harold Evans were charged with fighting in a public place. Mr W. R. Lascelles, who prosecuted for the Christchurch City Council, said the young men charged were employed by rival taxi firms. On February 4 they had been at the stands near the railway station, and when someone had lulled a cab, both had started off 'o answer the call. In the race to the tare one had apparently tripped the other, and then a brawl had started between them. Mr R. A. Young, who appeared for both defendants, submitted that there was no evidence that blows had been struck. The young men, he said, were quite good friends. After discussion between counsel and the magistrate on the legal definition of fighting, the magistrate suggested that it would perhaps be better to drop the case, and Mr Lascelles agreed to do this. "If they appear on a charge of disorderly behaviour again I shall not only have something to say, but something to do,” the magistrate said to Mr Lascelles, who had pointed out that the position at the railway station had become so disorderly that it was necessary to take action, if only in the interests of the men concerned. TOOK MAGISTRATE’S ADVICE James Straugfaan, who was told by the magistrate on Saturday that he bad better leave Christchurch, did not appear when the adjourned hearing of U* earn was resumed yesterday. Tim magistrate told him on Saturday that if be was not out of Christchurch by Monday by would get three mouths’ For dtenkenness Stzaughan was convjetad and discharged and for using imedting language he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence If odMl on within 12 months. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Otpowat <> g at * l * t tite city traffic byJmmfwmm dealt with as follows, orders

for costs being made in each case unless otherwise stated:—

Failing to take up position on taxi stand: William Norgate, fined 10s. Driving without license: Cyril E. Owen, Harry S. Tipping, ss; James Washbourne, 10s. . . Failing to produce license: William L. Aynsley, ss; Robert McStay, Edward Slattery, 10s. Using unlicensed heavy traffic vehicle: Haxby Abbott, 20s.

Speeding: Ronald Burns, £5, no reflector on cycle, costs only, and no white mudguard, costs only. Parking over time limit: Gilbert H. Burton, Walter A. Drake, Maurice B. McClurg, 20s; Arthur B. Ellis. 30s; Arthur D. Tucker, £2. Cycling on footpath: Leslie J. Wright, ordered to pay costs only; no lamp on cycle, convicted and discharged. Noisy exhaust; H. M. Williams, 20s. Inappropriate identifying marks: Mansell A, Parsons, 20s; noisy exhaust, convicted and discharged. Proceeding against automatic sigK nal: Basil Murphy, 20s. Cutting traffic zone: George T. Mulcock, 10s.

Cycling in reckless manner: William R. Johns, convicted and discharged. Causing obstruction: Leonard R. Hewitt, 20s. Overloading a vehicle: Goss Timber and Box Company, £3. Taking hiring within 200 yards of railway station; Eric Earl, 20s. Failing to give way to the right: George H. Dale, £2. Overtaking on intersection: Ernest Cooper, costs only. No reflector on cycle; Walter Messenger, 10s; no white mudguard, ss; no bell, convicted and discharged; no brake, convicted and discharged.