MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24368, 21 September 1944, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

WEDNESDAY ; (Before Mr A. A. McLaChian. S.M.) DAIRYMAN FINED Robert J. McNabb. a dairyman, wis prosecuted by the Health Department (Mr A. W. Brown) for selling milk, to which water had been added. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 and ordered to pay costs. ■ ■ ■ The defendant’s dairy had been visited by an Inspector on July 6, said Mr Brown, and two samples of milk had been taken for analysis, one of which was shown to have .7 per cent of water. The trouble was attributed to carelessness rather, than to a deliberate attempt to adulterate, and counsel said that the defendant, who , wag in a sihhll Way of business, kept a good and clean dairy. ... « . ■ ‘ The cows had been milked on the day in question by a youth, said Ur E S. Borne (for the defendant), and It was _■ possible* that he had not drained the cabs properly. ’ LEFT EMPLOYMENT James Henry Smttber (Mr- A. C. Brassin gton) pleaded guilty to having left his employment without the permission of the manpower authorities. He was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs. The defendant said Mr Brassington, had had some difficulty with his employer, and Instead of accepting the advice of a manpower official and appealing, he had left his place of employment labouring .under a sense of Injustice. The matter had since been adjusted, and he asked : the Bench to treat the breach as a technical one. REMANDS GRANTED; Charged with the theft of ISs in money, the property of Marjorie McßJdowney, at Christchurch, on September Id, Edward Hesketh, aged 22. a seaman, was remanded to appear on September 25. The police stated that they wished for time tt Which, to make further inquiries. • ■ '4" ’ A message boy aged 17, - who wgg charged with theft from the shop of a Christchurch jeweller, was remanded .-to . appear in the Children's Court on tenjber 29 • ’I; On the application of his Counsel (Mf J. K. Moloney) his name was suppressed, and bail was allowed. ; ' . UNREGISTERED DOGS Richard John HUlgrOve and.. Robert Henderson Ritchie were each fined £1 and' ordered to pay costs for owning unregistered dogs. . ■ • ■ .