MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23789, 7 November 1942, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) Albert Canner, a labourer, aged 58 years, pleaded not guilty to a charge of being found without lawful excuse on enclosed premises in Hereford street. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months. TRAFFIC OFFENCES

For riding a bicycle at night without a light, John Joseph Downing and Jack Lawrence Steenhart were each fined 10s and ordered to pay costs. Clarence Campbell Falconer, for having no warrant of fitness, was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs. For overloading a truck, Allan Flynn was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs, and for falling to give way, Arthur George Longstaff was fined 10s. and Charles Herbert O'Malley 20s, and ordered to pay costs. Ralph Christie Rollo was fined 20s and ordered to pay costs for failing to give way, and for having no warrant of fitness he was ordered to pay costs. Wilfred Gordon Wright was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs In each of two charges of having no driver’s licence and no warrant of fitness. A SOLDIER SENTENCED Edmund Francis Hall, a soldier, pleaded guilty to three charges of conversion and two of theft. He was charged with converting to his own use, but not so as to be guilty of theft, a motor-car valued at £3OO, the property of Keith Holman Parkinson, a bicycle valued at £1 10s, the property of Norman Joseph Tew. and a motor-truck, the property of Gough, Gough, and Hamer. He was also charged with stealing a cycle valued at £l4 14s, the property of Kelvin Brlen Stocker, and a petrol drum valued at 10s. the property of Eva Stocker. On the charge of stealing a bicycle, Hall was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and on the remainder he was convicted and discharged. For receiving a bicycle knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, Ronald STrevor Hall, aged 18 years, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence If called on within two years.