MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23004, 26 April 1940, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

; ' ■ : . y'-—. L WEDNESDAY.. ; (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) '• DRUNKENNESS. ' John Russell pleaded 1 guilty- to a - charge of drunkenness, a statutory seci ond offence, and . was convicted and I fined 30s and ordered to pay expenses E in default three days’ imprisonment. ! ' UNLICENSED RADIO f. For possessing an unlicensed radio ■ set Bruce Lowther Absolom was con- ■ victed and fined 5s and ordered to pay s costs. On a similar charge Veronica 3 Lagan was fined 5s and ordered to pay ! COStS. , . IMPRISONED FOR CONVERSION ; Pleading guilty to a charge of uni lawfully , converting. a motor-cycle 5 valued at £75, the property of Peter - William Phillips, Stanley William ; Conner, aged ‘ 23: years, was convicted j-- and sentenced to one month’s impris--1 onmeht with hard labour; • Detective-Sergeant F. Sinclair said : that a motor-cycle had, been missing > from Belfast, street on Tuesday night and later Conner was found with the machine some 300 yards distant, apparently having difficulty in starting it. ’ Conner .had: had previous - convictions, 1 for offences ° including theft. Apart * from this, conversion was becoming a s prevalent offence. 5- To. the, .Magistrate,; Cpnger, said; he

had had a few drinks, ’ otherwise he would not have taken the motor-cycle. KAIAPOI (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) F. A; James, charged with operating a motor-lorry oh the Main North road at a speed exceeding 25 miles an hour, was fined £l. . , D. Mitchell;- charged with driving a motor-car without reasonable consid- ■; eration .for other road-users, was fined 10s. ■■ V D. J. Morgan, charged with driving a car and exceeding the speed limit of 30 miles an hour, was fined 10s. For cycling at night without lights T. McGrath, J. McMillan, E. MOOre, L. W. Moxham, and M. Williams were each firied 10s, and B. H. Bruce was fined ss, R. McQuillan 2s 6d, and C. M. O’Connor 2s for similar offences. For cycling on the footpath W- H. Smith, M. Williams, J. Gallagher, J. McMillan. A. Smith were each fined 10s. B. Foley was fined 5s and C. M. O’Connor 2s'on similar charges. W Black, C. J. Inwood, and L. Newton, ’ charged with having liquor in the vicinity of a dance-hall, were fined 10s each. . . ' D. Fairburn. for riding a bicycle on the Main North road and travelling on the right of more, than one bicycle, was fined ss. (Before the Rev. W. H. A. Vickery, J.P.. and Mr A. S. Palmer. J.P.) S.-F.' Pearce, charged with assault, was convicted and sentenced to six weeks’ ;.imprisonment. ;; ; v i, ..