MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24053, 15 September 1943, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

♦ , TUESDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) ASSAULT CHARGES. Robert Charles Noble Wilson, a ship’s fireman, was fined £5, in default 10 days’ imprisonment, on a charge of assault, and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months on a second charge. Sub-Inspector Macnamara said the accused, who had apparently had too much liquor, had accosted two girls in Hereford street. In imposing the penalty, the Magistrate said such behaviour could not be tolerated, and accused would be well advised to mind his behaviour when in town., USE OF UNIFORM William Murray Campbell, aged 17 years, pleaded guilty to'a charge of wearing a uniform of the Royal New Zealand Air Force without awful authority. For the police, Senior-Detective H. Nuttall said that in June, 1942, the accused had joined the Air Training Corps and had altered his uniform to represent that of the Air Force. He had been arrested by the military police and, taken to the barracks, from which he had escaped. The youth was of a larrikin type and needed discipline. v / Campbell was remanded till Thursday, the Probation Officer to furnish a report. DESERTING FROM SHIP Felix James Baker (Mr J. K. Moloney), a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of deserting from an overseas ship. Sub-Inspector Macnamara said the ship from which Baker had deserted had now left New Zealand. Mr Moloney said a voice should be raised against the treatment of men who went to sea. Accused had injured an arm, and on this ship there were no facilities for properly treating his injuries. The working and living conditions had never been altered. He suggested that the man be placed on board a ship instead of being sent to gaol. The Magistrate said he had no power to order this. , Baker was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment. BY-LAW BREACHES Robert Alexander Milne, James Rolston, Norman Hulme, and James Gilmore Long were each ordered to pay costs on charges of cycling three abreast. The police said the offenders were all members of the Air Force, and there appeared to be an impression that the bylaw against riding more than two abreast did not apply outside the city boundary. The riders had been caught at Rlccarton. The Magistrate: You can pass the word round that it is an offence to ride three abreast anywhere. In future the minimum fine will be 20s. For not having sufficient lights on his motor-cycle, Leslie Morris Scott was fined 20s. . ' CONVICTED AND DISCHARGED Robert Wark Johnstoqe. who had previously pleaded guilty to the unlawful conversion of a motor-cycle to his own use and to the theft of two blankets valued at 15s Bd, and Allen Joseph Davies, who admitted the theft of three deerskins valued at £4 12s and a pair of roller skates valued, at 355, were convicted and discharger!. Both accused had been previously sentenced in the Supreme Court. CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) Judgment by default - was' given for plaintiff in the following claims:—Ross Derisley Wood v. Archie Henry Blue, £245 7s 10d; Patrick Clement Crooke v. L. Saunders, £2 Is; John Burns and Company, Ltd., v. W. F. Wilson, 19s 6d: Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., v. W. F. Wilson, £2 Is lOd; Drapery and General Importing Company of New Zealand, Ltd., v. K. Dyer, £4 3s 3d. Douglas Vernon Donaldson (Mr D. S. Murchison), an orthodontist, of Cambridge terrace, claimed the sum of £lO 10s from Olive Cowllshaw (Mr D. W. Russell) for professional services given to her daughter, Deidre Wardell. Plaintiff was non-suited.