MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS

Vernon Patrick Rowlands, a fifth offender, was sentenced to imprisonment for seven days for drunkenness. For breach of a prohibition order he was convicted and discharged.

Patrick Murphy, a second offender for drunkenness, was fined 20s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment.

REMANDED Horace Hartman and Samuel Henry Clegg (Mr W. F. Tracy), charged with ihe theft of a suitcase valued at £1 ss, were remanded until September 29. Bail was allowed. ADMITTED TO PROBATION Edward Robert All press was admitted to probation, under special conditions, for two years, for the theft of a bicycle valued at £3, the property of Harry Smith. The Magistrate said that if accused came before the Court again he would be sent to the Borstal Institution. FIVE CHARGES Alexander Frank Jackson (Mr C. V. Lester), aged 18A, pleaded guilty to live charges—(wo of securing a Slim of money, totalling £8 7s 2d, by making out false authorities for wages, one of theft of a wristlet watch, valued at £5, and 4s 7d in cash, one of stealing another watch, and one of stealing a tea pot from the Canterbury Public Library. Detective J. Bickerdike said that accused had called at the onice of an Auckland firm and collected the wages of two employees by false authorities. He had stolen one watch, and after paying a deposit on another watch bought from a time-payment firm, had paid no more on it and sold the watch. Mr Lester said that the boy, who was well educated, had recently had an attack of measles, and when he went back to his work at Auckland he did not receive sufficient money to pay his board for the month he had been off ill. The boy had collected the wages by false authorities to pay that board and then cleared out from Auckland. The treatment he had received at his work, counsel claimed, was a contributing factor. Counsel also suggested that while the inquiries suggested by the Magistrate were being made the boy might be kept in the Salvation Army Home. This was agreed to, and Jackson; who was convicted on each charge, was remanded for sentence for a week so that a report could be made by the Probation Officer. LICENSING ACT CHARGES John Henry Mackenzie, licensee ot the Ellesmere Arms Hotel, was fined £3 and ordered to pay costs on a charge of supplying liquor after hours. Leslie B. Greer was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs for being unlawfully on the hotel premises. CONVICTED OF ASSAULT

Mahommed Idris, an Indian member of the crew of the Narbada, pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawfully assaulting an 11-year-old white boy on board the ship. It was alleged that the assault had occurred in a passenger cabin, while the boy was inspecting the ship. Accused was represented by Mr J. D. Hutchison. All of the evidence was heard through an interpreter. The Magistrate, convicting accused, said lie was satisfied with the evidence of identification. _ "The main thing is to make sure he gets out of the country," he said, in sentencing Idris to one month's imprisonment with a proviso that he t>e placed on board the Narbada before she sails.

MAINTENANCE CLAIMS (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.)

Charles Frederick Greenhalgh was convicted for a breach of a maintenance order and sentenced to imprisonment for one month, warrant to be suspended if 5s a week is paid. On a similar charge, James Duncan Stewart was fined £2, and Hubert Victor Hayston was sentenced, on each of two charges, to three months' imprisonment, warrant to be suspended if 2s a week is paid off the arrears. George Alfred Hayward, for a similar breach, was sentenced to two months imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended if 5s a week is paid off the arrears. A maintenance order for £2 a week in favour of his .wife was made against Thorburn Thomas Cairns. An order for £2 10s a week was made against Frederick Risdon, in favour of his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Risdon, who was also granted separation and guardianship orders.