MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) CHARGE OF THEFT On a charge of the theft of a watch (valued at £ls) and a sum of £2l, Violet Telia Viana DaHey was remanded to appear on January 27.

REMANDED ■ Hugh Rupert Austin was remanded to appelr on January 27 on a charge of breaking and entenng the of Archibald’s Garage, Ltd., 24 Oxford terrace, and committing theft.

MILK VENDOR FINED “This man has been before the Court two other times and charged With adding water to the milk. I can find nothing favourable to say,” said Mr l. Par ge ter, for the Department of "Health, when Joseph Donald was charged with selling milk containing less than 3.1 parts per cent- of milk fat. Donald was convicted and fined £o end ordered to pay costs and expenses. SOLD INFERIOR MILK

Avery Hudson Dale, who pleaded "guilty to a charge of selling milk not '.up to the standard of a reductase test, i was convicted and fined 10s and ordered to pay costs and expenses. ; Mr Pargeter, for the Department of Health, said he sympathised with Dale, who was apparently some sort of agent for a firm. The firm, however, had refused to support him and had sheltered behind him. A breach, however, had been committed, and action had to be taken. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Traffic offenders were fined as follows (payment of costs being ordered in each case): — Failing to keep to left: Henry Kerr, , 10s; Benjamin Berrett. 10s. For having no warrant of fitness Berrett was con- ■" victed and ordered to pay costs. Cycling on footpath: Edward Johnston, 10s: David Reid, 10s: John - Senior, 10s. UNLICENSED RADIO SETS The following were convicted and ’ fined (and ordered to pay costs unless otherwise) for possessing unlicensed radio sets:—Johnstone Anderson, ss; William Albert Gaines, 2 0s; ? Jean Hosking, ss: Onslow Jack Johnstone, ss; John Johnston, 40s; Arthur {’George Longstaffe, ss; Isabella Martin, * 12s 6d; Muriel Audrey Plummer, 10s; » David Henry Reed, ss; Ernest Gray ? Roach, 10s; Ina Gale, costs only.

SHOPKEEPERS FINED * Sadie Donaldson, for failing to close her shop at 1 p.m. on the statutory 1 half-day, was convicted and fined 10s • and ordered to pay costs. George Enright Robinson was convicted and fined 5s and ordered to 7 pay costs for failing to close his shop '■ at 6 p.m. >*■ John Thomas Snook (Mr H. H. Han-

•nah), charged with failing to pay the t minimum prescribed wages, was con- ’ victed and fined 20s and ordered to pay costs.

CHARGE DISMISSED y A charge against Leicester Tiverton Wright, farmer, of Annat, that he had caused a sheep unnecessary suffering, contrary to section 7 of the Police Offences Act, 1927, was dismissed. The charge was brought on the in- . formation of David White, inspector for the Society of Cruelty to Dumb Anl-

. mals. Mr J. K. Moloney appeared for - the society and Mr R. A. Young for Wright. On October 6, at the Addington ealeyards, Mr Moloney said. White had seen a sheep, which had been a ram, - on which some process of sterilisation - had apparently been attempted. Suppuration and infection had been caused; the sheep had been jostled by other sheep and by dogs; and considerable suffering had resulted. Questioned later, Wright, the defendant, denied that a cord had been tied to the sheep, or that he. had knowingly caused the sheep suffering. The sterilisation process he had used was the same as he and other farmers customarily used on sheep, and he was unaware that in the particular case the process had been only partly success-

RANGIORA

(Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M;)

For having driven motor vehicles in Ashley street, Rangiora, at speeds in excess of 30 miles an hour, Albert George Anderson was fined £5 and costs, and David Edward Graham £2 end costs.

Judgment for plaintiff by default, with costs, was given in each of the following undefended civil cases:—R. A. Carpenter (Mr H. K. Kippenberger) v. S. D. Wilson, £5 Is 7d; C. V. Harris (Mr A. G. van Asch) v. H. W. Pettengill, £6O. Les Cox was ordered to pay S. Frew <Mr A. C. Fraser) £2 15s on or before January 31, in default two days’ imprisonment with hard labour.