MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23940, 6 May 1943, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr F F. Reid, S.M.) DELIVERY OF BREAD The delivery of bread in a vehicle which did not give full protection against rain and dust, and which could not easily t . cleaned, was the subject of a charge laid under the Health Act against Stacey and Hawker, Ltd. Mr A. W. Brown prosecuted and Mr C. S. Thomas represented the defendant company. The company, which admitted the Information, was convicted and ordered to pay costs, and solicitor’s fee. Complaints had been received from a hospital concerning the manner In which bread was delivered, said Mr Brown. The bread was delivered by the defendant company In a truck with a canvas top. and a canvas flap at the back, which, when seen by an Inspector of the Department of Health, was rolled up. Bread in the back of the truck was in open wooden crates, and was being delivered to a military camp. The bread delivered to the hospital was stacked on tne upholstered seat in the cab of the truck. The company prosecuted was most reputable, and the delivery of bread in this fashion was not a regular practice, said Mr Brown.

The main load of bread on the truck, concerning which complaints had been made, was destined for a military camp, said Mr Thomas. The Army authorities supplied large crates, which were not completely boarded in, for the conveyance of bread. The driver of the truck had definite instructions that the canvas flap t the back of the truck was to be kept rolled down. There was a special box for the hospital bread in the back of the truck, but the driver had, for an unknown reason, placed the bread on tne front seat. Since the offence, the truck had been completely renovated, added Mr Thomas. MILK COMPANY FINED United Dairies, Ltd. (Mr L. J. Hensley) was charged with failing to keep a wages and time book for office employees between October 16. 1942, and February 16, 1943. The defendant company pleaded guilty. No entry had been made in the wages and time book in respect of three office employees, said Mr S. E. McGregor, who prosecuted, on behalf of the Department of Labour. The defendant company apparently thought that the entries in connexion with the number of hours worked applied only to milk roundsmen and not to office staff.

The company’s books were perfectly in .order, except that the starting and finishing hours of work for three office employees had not been entered up. said Mr Hensley. The matter was now rectified. Only a nominal penalty was called for. said the Magistrate, in imposing a fine of 10s. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of obstructing a ranger of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, at the Selwyn river, on March 14, laid against S Hands, of Templeton, E. J. Smith, sen., of Prebbleton, and E I. ' nith, iun., of Christchurch, was dismissed. The defendants, each of whom pleaded not guilty, were represented by I. A. W Brown Mr M J. Gresson appealed for the Acclimatisation Society The case for the prosecution depended on whether the ranger’s action in calling on the defendants' boat to stop could be regarded as a positive demand said the Magistrate. He was not satisfied that the burden of proving the case had been discharged by the prosecution SALMON TAKEN IN NET

James Nicholson and Patrick Nicholson pleaded not guilty to a charge of netting salmon at the month of the Waimakanri river, on March 23.

Patrick Nicholso- said he understood that the regulations forbidding the netting of saimon aoplied only to fresh water fishing The salmon had been taken while he and his father, the other defendant, were netting flounders in salt water He asked that his boat and net. which had been Impounded should be returned to him

James Nicholson was convicted and fiord Ids and costs, and Patrick Nichol--o” was ordered to pay costs Application would have to be made to the Minister in charge of the Marine 0--oartment for the return of the boat and net. the Magistrate said SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

Pleading guilty to a charge of failing to send his son t" 1 the New Brighton -hnol on divers dates in March and Anri! this year, John Henry Burrowes was convicted and fined 10s. and ordered to nav costs He was similarly fined on a further charge, to which he nleaded not cm Itv. of failing to send another son • o the North New Brighton School. REMANDED A man. publication of whose name was forbidden, was charged with obtaining £8 bv falsely representing that a cheque made’ *n favour of a city firm was a good and valid order He was remanded to -n-pqr again on Mav 13. and was admit>ed to h’il In hi« own recognisance of -=0 with one surety of £SO. FINE IMPOSED

Frederick James Braisher. a rabbiter, ged 43 years, was fined 15s and ordered to pay costs, on a charge of casting offensive matter in a public place.