MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22429, 16 June 1938, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) LICE-INFECTED SHEEP

Two prosecutions for exposing liceinfected sheep for sale at the Addington yards were brought by Mr R. McK. Anderson, stock inspector. Frederick George Early said that he had been grazing some sheep in another farmer’s paddock at Templeton, and he had instructed this man to dip the sheep a fortnight before selling them. He found out later that the weather had stopped this man dipping the sheep, though he would not have allowed them to have gone to Addington if he had known this. He was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs.

? Herbert Alexander Hunt, of the Chatham Islands, was fined £3 and ordered to pay costs. There were 478 sheep in the line, and out of the 47 which were inspected 40 were infected. The inspector said that Hunt had claimed that the sheep had been dipped at the islands and must have become infected since their arrival in Canterbury. ASSAULT ADMITTED John Blackburn, a farm labourer, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months for assaulting a boy aged 14J years, and was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs for using insulting language to a girl assistant in the Plaza Milk Bar. Senior-Sergeant P. C. Felton said that the accused and a companion had entered the milk bar about 6.30 p.m. and were accosted for not paying for some drinks. It was then that the accused had used the language and was told to leave the shop. He had spoken to the boy who was employed in the shop, and had smacked him on the face. He had obviously had some drink. EMPLOYMENT AFTER HOURS Kenneth Vogan (Mr T. Papprill) was fined £1 and ordered to pay costs on one charge of employing an assistant after the statutory closing time on a half-holiday. He was ordered to pay costs on each of two other similar charges. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS Prosecutions brought for breaches of traffic regulations in the borough of New Brighton were dealt with as follows: Driving without licence; Sidney J. H. Aston, fined 20s. . Cycling on footpath: Nicholas Bonnett, fined 10s. Cutting corner: Arthur Brightling fined 20s. No warrant of fitness; Edwin C. Dann, ordered to pay costs. Parking in prohibited area: Frank N. Devenport, John Pullon, and Graeme Wilson, each fined ss. FINE OF £lO Horace Samuel Burrows, who admitted being sentenced on April 22 to imprisonment for 14 days, to having his licence cancelled and endorsed, and to being prohibited from obtaining another for 18 months, was fined £lO and was ordered to pay costs for driving without a licence. Burrows said that he had to get into town and his wife was going to drive him. She could not go, so that he took the car, but was careful to go by the back road to New Brighton, where ho caught a tram into town. PRINTER FINED Stanley Ambrose McDougall, for employing a youth after 5 p.m. without obtaining the necessary permit, was fined £1 and ordered to pay costs. Mr J. A. Niblock, who appeared for McDougall, said that he was the successful tenderer for printing the ballot papers for the recent municipal elections, and had employed the boy in wrapping up the parcels of paper to get them through by contract time. He had given the boy a meal. AWARD WAGES NOT PAID John Martin (Mr R. S. D. Twyneham) was fined £3 and ordered to pay costs for failing to pay an employee the award rate of wages, and was ordered to pay costs on a charge of failing to keep a proper wages and time book. FAILURE TO PAY LEVY Lawrence Edward Walter Tolshard was charged with defaulting three times in the payment of his unemployment levy. On one charge he was fined £2 ss, and was ordered to pay costs and on each of the other two he was ordered to pay costs only.