MAGISTEATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 2 January 1940, Page 12

MAGISTEATE'S COURT

SATURDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) YOUNG MAN'S THEFTS Raymond Burton, aged 22, was charged with stealing a pair of trousers, valued at 15s, the property of Margaret Berry, a second-hand dealer. Burton was also called on for sentence on another charge of stealing £5 10s in money,'the property of Lawrence Stuart Walton, for which he was convicted in November and admitted to five years' probation. On the new. charge Burton was committed for two years to a Borstal institution, and on the other he. was convicted and discharged. • INCIDENT IN HOTEL - John Williamson, an engineer, aged 33, faced one charge of drunkenness and two of mischief. Sub-Inspector W. E. Packer * described an incident in the Dominion Hotel on December 29. where, he said, accused had become violent.: For damaging a plate glass door valued at £1 15s. the property of Alistair Young, and-damaging an enamel plate valued at Is 6d, the property of the Government, Williamson was ordered to pay damages, and Court costs, and on the drunkenness charge he. was. fined. 10s. '•• REMANDED • James Mervyn Philp was;remanded to January 8 on the charge of steal-, ing, on September 10, 1937, a motorcycle, valued at £137. the property of the Heathcote County Council. Richard. Lan Hall, aged 80," was remanded to January 8. on the charge that at Nelson on September 29 last he converted to his use a motor-car valued at £3OO, the property of Allick Robertson. MONDAY (Before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M.) DESERTION FROM SHIP Alfred Oliver, aged 19 years, was charged with desertion from an overseas ship at Lyttelton. A representative of a snipping company asked that the youth should be ordered to return to his ship. The Magistrate convicted Oliver and ordered him to be placed on the ship. SEPARATION BROKEN Percival Johnstone, aged ' 35. was charged with drunkenness and with entering the* premises of Muriel Johnstone during the currency of a separation order. He was fined 10s for the drunkenness and convicted and discharged on the other count. SOLDIERS' MONEY STOLEN James Alfred Yeates, a. .pensioner aged 67,- was charged with stealing a money-belt and £3 18s 7d the property of James Hickey. Detective J. McClung said that Yeates had taken the belt in the Young Men's Christian Association building on New Year's Eve. Yeates was fined £5, and ordered to "pay costs and return the belt and money.