MAGISTRATE COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23317, 1 May 1941, Page 10

MAGISTRATE COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young, PLACED ON A former milk-van driver Verted a van and began to mosey from milk bottles probation for two. yeari£»!Gor^ David Bruce, a driver Agee charged with the conversion owned by the Milk ation, the theft of Is fid; to account for £lO 15s 4ct 'HhBmMW petty of the same Detective-Sergeant J. that when Bruce worked sociation he took odd sums. oveiljjSHH months and was dismissed plaints had been made. After thiwaßWl took his former van and hegahlroHSßl lect. money, but after obtainingßßnH| gave the idea up. Mr J. T. Watts said that 26, married, and had one chilcbJ«K had been living with his wife’s began to. drink, and was turned For converting the van, fined £10; for failing to was admitted to . probation fottafiSaßT years (to be prohibited for that nwßiapfc and ordered to make restitutitunlaMßK? stealing Is fid, he was discharged. :SK THEFT AT WIGRAM “This is just another case ing at Wigram,” said Sergeant McChmg, when Ernef||npjMj h>m , Potter, a mess-hand, charged from the Air charged with stealing, on AprlllMM* suitcase, valued at 17 s fid. cused had been brought into toiwsßalMl the Air Force authorities, and not get the chance to collect theSaßMh case, which he had previously and put away in a room where iiaßgMi later found. Potter was fined £2, in default days’ imprisonment . .«|||K IRREGULAR SCHOOL Leonard Young was fined ordered to pay costs' for. failing his 12-year-old son regularly Phillipstown School. FALSE PRETENCE ■ On a charge of obtaining by afiife- ■ pretence goods to the value of £3 10s in money by representing -OatsA a cheque drawn on the Bank of Iwf Zealand, Nelson, was good and:wdk»Lß Edwin Samuel Bosher, a sakmja3pß aged 43, was remanded until Three charges are pending, tive-Sergeant McClung asked, vA|k|B bail was applied for, that it be totlif'B substantial amount. Bail in' 1 cused’s own recognisance of £IOO, wioFB one surety of £IOO, was granted, ndf-B he was ordered to report daily to tht| ■ P ° llCe ’ REMANDED On a charge of assault on a aged 11, at Waikari, Frederick Ptwr-feHl a labourer and porter, aged 48, remanded until May 12. Bail accused’s own recognisance of with one surety of £IOO. and the cawaM dition that he report daily tojthe nettjßH est police station, was granted. --D - f “WM Alphonso George Chamley, a'.hoftfSß porter aged 30, was remanded untilito-4K day, charged that he stole a the property of someone unknown. Jjtr, 1 , B R. A. Young, representing him, obieetHiSß. to a longer remand. The bicycle himssß been at the hotel for four Chamley admitted it was not- hfc'awjMi Young said, but the onus was onTfIBBK police'to prove that it did belong someone. , UNLICENSED RADIO SETS For having unlicensed radio set£%jiß' following were fined and ordercd>aß^B pay costs:—Alan Raymond Annaaddl^H fid; Stewart Barr, 20s; Constance Bradshaw, ss; William £2; Albert George Cotton, £6; kJoHH Charles Cox, £ll3s 4d; MauriceiraH val Dunn, ss; Edward Hartley, 12s William- Karnback, 8s 4d; Ar{th»9 Henry Lambie, 7s fid; Alice Ahwß Leonard,/ 20s; Gilbert Manson, £yf<B Joseph Robert Mortland, 20s; - Willinyfl Thomas Parish, 22s lid; Athol Ru««W Pester, £2 15s; Sydney Percy TeaibßßM 355; Eric Wilfred Turner. 20s;,gMMBa Robert Seddon Turner, £2; CnarMp s Victor Watson, £2, —— '■ ■ -•; 1 ■ ‘ - ’»■ KAIAPOI _ (Before Mr E„ C. Lewey,; TRAFFIC OFFENCES t I R. J. Ayers, charged with drivinffiifß motor-cycle on the Main NorthraMs-‘l at a speed exceeding 30 miles an hon&f-l was fined £2, and for driving a cycle without holding a drivers he was fined 30s*. • '« J. S. Strong, charged with drivisrapß motor-car and failing to give way wjjgpl vehicle on his right at an interaectjflpak'.l was fined £2, ■' On a rehearing, J. P. Ryan chnMKB with driving a motor-cycle at exceeding 40 miles an hour witnVlisß pillion passenger, was fined IQ& Wigrß for driving a motor-cycle at speed in the borough he was finediflpjfjffiß S. F. Pearce, charged with procurra|^9 liquor while a prohibition orderwdi#!® force, was fined 20s, * B R. C, Blazey, for operating a primal car without carrying a warrant « ft" ■ ness, was fined 10s. -i v R. E. Erickson, for driving a mow-A i cycle on the main highway withoiOTt|;| driver’s licence, was convicted BSf [ I ordered to pay-costs, and for operatiaf£- ■ a motor-cycle without a warrant otflPfg ness he was convicted and discharge! * I _____ ■ LEESTON (Before Mr H. A. Young, SM.) ,; I UNDERSIZED FISH J R. J. Naim and W. Quigley/ jtm v I who did not appear, were chartjfe ; .v with taking undersized flounderts]P&j. Ellesmere. M. Hope, a fishing/**'/ spector, in evidence, stated that Qujfe^ jl ley bad been abusive and had to give his name until arrest. Nairn was fined £2 and Qqw&f k ley £5. Charged with being In arrears «bt; maintenance order, R. J.- Purcell, d» not appear. He was ordered to JJJ. 10s a week off the arrears, in addP. tion to meeting current payments. 1 I