MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22920, 17 January 1940, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) FALSE PRETENCE Walter Alexander White, a painter,, a married man, aged 39, of Lyttelton, (Mr J. T. Watts), pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining money by false pretence from John Bede Payton. The amount involved Was £SO. Detective-Sergeant F. Sinclair said that the accused represented that he could employ a nephew of the complainant, and obtained the money in this way. Mr Watts said that White had a large family and had had difficulties over a long period. This was his first appearance in Court. White was remanded until tomorrow, to enable a report to be obtained from the Probation Officer. BREACH OF PROBATION

Gordon Cameron, of Hornby,, was charged with breach of the terms of his release on probation. His term of probation was extended for 12 months. CITY TRAFFIC CASES

Offenders against traffic regulations prosecuted by the City Council Were fined or otherwise dealt with as follows: — ~ _ _ iT _ , Failing to give way to right: Ethel Rose Smart, 20s; Frederick J. McSweeney, £2. ~.,.-« Cycling at night without light: Bertram Bartholomew, convicted and discharged; Reginald Lynch, 10s; Albert Hunt, 10s; George William Swift, 10s; John B. Wright, 10s; George Walter Treloar, 10s. Speeding: Graham Bennett, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Linton Harker, £2; Kenneth B. Lowe, £2; William McKaskell, 20s; Ronald Smith, 20s. John C. Torrens, £2. „*„„„. No warrant of fitness: Claude Betts, 10s; Reginald Cook, ss; Isaac Karst, 10s; Allen E. Marston, costs only; Ernest W. P. Powell, ss; Edmund S. Rutherford, ss; Levi John Strange, 5s (no warrant for trailer, ss; no number plates for trailer, ss); Jack O. R. Thompson, £5; Felix JoHn West, 10s; Gilbert G. Woodhead, 20s; Ernest Woods, ss. Unregistered trailer: Herbert K. Boyce, convicted and discharged. Parking longer, than time limit: Marjorie Ferner, costs only; Ernest Friedlander, 20s; Stewart E. Mair, 10S; Frederic Vivian Whitta, 10s. Unlicensed heavy traffic vehicle: William Joseph Grodm, £3. Failing to signal . right-hand' turn: William McKay, 20s. . Proceeding against signal: Bernice Lamb, 20s; Alfred George Webb, costs only. Overloading heavy traffic vehicle: Robert Leitch, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s). Parking too close to another vehicle: Matthew Charles P. Gates, 20s. TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT CASES.

* Offenders against traffic regulations prosecuted by the Traasport Department were 'fined or otherwise dealt with as follows: —,

Speeding: Leo Cyril Fox, 20s; John .Chisholm, £2; Harold Beveridge Pat-

erson, £2; Archibald Neilson, £3; Rex Bryan. £2; Wallace Pearce, Ingram, £2; Isabel Purse, £2; Alan Hugh Thomas. £2; Kenneth John Moyle Greer, £2. ■ Dangerous speed: Kenneth Godfrey Wllloughby, £3, (exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger, 10s). No footrests on motor-cycle: John Hudson, 10s.

Insufficient lights: Charles Marsh, costs only. f Exceeding limit of heavy traffic licence: Albury William Scott, 10s. No warrant of fitness: Albert Ronald Root, ss; Ellen Cecil, 10s (failing to dip headlights, 203). Exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger: Maxwell Farrell, 10s (defective exhaust, 10s; no tall light, costs only). . , '. GOODS SERVICE LICENCE For breach of a gdods service licence Alfred John Read was fined £lO and ordered to. pay costs.

CIVIL CASE (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT Mason, Struthers and Company Ltd., were given Judgment by default for £2 8s 6d against Walter Sydney Terriss.