MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23413, 21 August 1941, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

'; ’ r WEDNESDAY (Before Mr A. A. McLajhlan. SM.) ~ THEFT OF BICYCLE ■>' ' Leo Thomas Dromgool, pleading, guilty to a charge of stealing s bicycle v valued at £l2, the property of Ken Allin, was convicted and discharged. Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike said,the accused had been dismissed from' the Army on July 30, came to Christchurch, stole the bicycle, and sold it the same day for 355. He was already serving a sentence of imprisonment dor another offence. UNDERWEIGHT BREAD James Grove Souter, a baker, of Lyt- ‘J telton, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling an underweight loaf. ' j. Mr S. E. McGregor, prosecuting for J the Labour Department, said that Souter’s shop had been visited, and all the loaves in it had been found to be underweight. On six loaves there was i a total shortage of Hi ounces. Later, ’ , four loaves from the defendant's van ■;> were weighed, and showed a total - -ti shortage of 11J ounces. Mr McGregor said that tests about jj seven years ago had established that ■ 21b 4oz was the minimum weight at j which loaves should be scaled, to give ■■■ •; a margin of certainty about the final ■'% weight. ;j Souter said that he could only ac-. count for the shortages by the quality 4 of the-flour or the humidity. Some y .loaves scaled at the same weight, 21b /- 3oz, had turned out overweight./ He « had since scaled loaves at 21b 4of and was still uncertain about the weight - j after baking. Different kinds of flour 1 had been used since the tests the in- i spector mentioned had been made. • Souter was fined £2 and ordered to ■(! pay costs. , TRAFFIC OFFENCES The following fines, with order to - pay costs in each case, were imposed for traffic offences:—Speeding: Noel 7 Archibald, £2. Holding on to tram while cycling; William Fox, 20s. No .v driver’s licence: Ronald Mathewson* v 30s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). No ;i warrant of fitness: Emile Jayet, 20s. Crossing railway when not clear: - Charles Herbert Thompson, 20s. .3 UNLICENSED RADIO SETS The following were fines imposed ' \ for the operation of unlicensed radio ; 1 receiving sets, payment of costs being , ordered in each case:—Edward Samuel ,5 Craddock, ss; Raymond Standish Field,, •,-« ss; Sydney Reginald Forscutt, 15s; Richard Norman French, 20s; Arthur >- Albert Gough, ss; Walter Medley Hula- , torn ss; Lawrence Hughes, 6s 3d; lan William Jamieson, ss; Lawrence John -n Jeffs, ss; Cyril James Martin, ss; John -v Maxwell, ss; Francis Augustus Neale, .. 12s 6d; Robert William Neville, 15s;. - i; Arthur Dudley Norris, ss; Douglas Me-' > t Intyre Park, ss; Dorothea Smith, 17s, .■ 6d; Robert James Sutton, ss; Harold- :x Edwin Taylor, ss; Henry Thomas Wal- - ; dron, 17s 6d. . .if