MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24866, 4 May 1946, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S : M ) REMANDEp Patrick Callaghan, a seaman, aged 27, was remanded to May 7 on a charge of stealing, 4t Lpftgpurn, clothing valued at £l3, th? property of Thomas Dennis r#W ’ VINES IMPOSED Lome Thompson Jones, a farmer and fitter and turner, aged 44, pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor»vehicle. Sub-?lnspector G. J. Paine said that accused had been found in charge of a motor-truck in Sydenham foe previous evening He had then been in an advanced Rtate of intoxication, and had later been certified unfit tp drive. A Sue ot £8 was ijnpteed, and Jones was declared to be incapable of holding a driver-s licence for 12 months. Jones was also fined 20s fer driving Without q licence, and 10s for operating a motor vehicle without g warrant of fit-* OHenders againsFtae C traffic regulations were deoil with as follows fa eases brought oy the police;—foiling to give way. Heqry Thomas Alexander Bpmett, £2; Herbert William Foster, 20s (np warrant of fitness, costs only); Stanley Edgar Lawry, convicted and discharged; Basil Orton Manson, 20s (no warrant qt fltp ess > costs? only); Thomas James Adam Tait, 20s. Passing stationary U®. 10s; William George Rowlands, 10s (passing stationary tram, 20s). No taillight; Allan Manson, convicted and discharged. Driving without due care and attention. John Alexander McQueen, guttfay comer: Haymond Hubert Arthur Bowe, 80s. Dangerbus driving: Donald McTainsh. £3- Cycling at night without a light. Ronald Lawrence Singleton. 20s; William Rrqce Wardell, 10s. (Before Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M.) IMPRISONMENT "This tan rather safi iease of « young man who dfo _npt, comply With his legal obligations to consider the penal section of tog Bankrupfoy Apt before cpmmitt ting griewetol rkreaphes of the bankruptcy laws in respect of some of his friends and acquaintances,” said the Magistrate when Noel Buncan Wallis, aged 39, a bankrupt byilflipg epntractor (Mr P. H. X The charges were that' being ■a’ person account within three years before toe sfort Gt his bankruptcy; and that h* contracted the following debts when he could not have had any reasonable or probable expectation pf being able to repay them as well as all his other debts: (I) £278 to Amy Vincent, (2) £lOO to Neil Davidson. (3) £lOO to C. M Jobhr stan. ’‘The case is sad from to® point of view of the unfortunate persons who were taken down, and sad frbm to® PVfot pf View of the accused’s wife ahtf tonify and his own future,” said the Magistrate, “but the duty pf the Qourts wheh these eastta aria? w to .remind both thq prisoner end toe public that there are these necessary safeguards against exploitation and irresponsible conduct on foe part of all/businessmen, it is necessary, therefore, to Impose a short term of imprisonment. , On each of the firpt two charges Wallis was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the terms to he concurrent, and on the other two charges he was convicted and discharged.