MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25085, 17 January 1947, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) REMANDED Francis Indali John Greening, charged ■with breaking and entering the warn, house °V he a t C 244 t^1 t Ul A h c J othißg Com ' pany, Ltd., at 244 St. Asaph street, and committing theft, was remanded to appear on Bail was granted in, the sum or £lOO and one surety of £lOO On the application of Senior-Detective F. J. Brady. Robert William Strongman was remanded to January 23 on a charge of carnally knowing a girl under the age of IS at Auckland on June 29 g Frederick Gerald Weakley, ' aged 11 years, was remanded to February 6 m a charge of having been found intoxicated when in charge of a motor-car in Ferry road on January 1. Barry Robert Evans (Mr J. A Ken nedy) was remanded for one week on a charge of stealing a bicycle valued at £3O, the property of Rex Sheldon. ROWING CLUB FINED The Avon Rowing Club (Mr w n Lascelles) pleaded guilty to charged nt selling intoxicating liquor when not having authority to do so; and that, being a body l . S? r P° r ?l. e having control of a dance held in the Avon Rowing Cli.h hah, it supplied liquor. CJub Inspector G. J. Paine said two eon stables had visited the Avon Rowing Clubs rooms and found that onenSf had been fitted up as a bar 15 which there were 30 men. The method of working was that members of the club nirr chased tickets at 4d each, and surrei' tiered these at the bar. There was nn suggestion of disorderly conduct The usual custom was to supply two three gallons of beer for each week end: but reports showed that oravni™ of 20 gallons had been purchased ® Mr Lascelles said the Avon Rowing club was an old club dating back to mi and that its records were clean The etoh had a struggle to maintain existence ™ the annual Subscription of £2 2s aSked from members The occasion on which the present charge rested was the da? of the head-of-the-river race a bto da? in rowing m Christchurch, in a ver? strenuous sport in which vigorous 3 were engaged, tea and cakS dfd ”o“ always appeal, and two 10 gallon kegs had been purchased. The dance wfs really a private affair lor members n? the different rowing clubs, and to dispose of the liquor the purchase at sL a “profit did n °‘ teave the club w?£ charge the Magistrate said ’that’ consl? S?si e d q ar^Sn°t f t l iX Or H h e ad ag b rS £ there had been no disorderly behaviour! ALLEGED FALSE PRETFNcwc Hubert John Taylor (M? J D C H?witt) aged IS years, pleaded guilty to a cm.™ that with intent to defraud h? obtatofd from Yee Paleon the sum of £2 hv falsely representing that he waft t Stewart, and that* he could obtain five £3* 10s?ar tyres for him fcr the s£m of Senior-Detective Brady said Phlp™ met With an accident to his can and afto? Taylor had given assistance Paleon asked Taylor to come to h" 5,00° to gel some fruit. There Taylor offered to secure tyres for Paleon. and received a deposit of £2. for which he gave a receipt signed J. L. Stewart Mr Hewitt said Taylor was a voune ffi Jn l id „ n °t valise his responsibilities. He had acted very foolishly. The Magistrate said it was a difficult case to deal with. He would remand the accused for sentence till next Tuesday and would ask the Probation Officer to furnish a report. vxmvw io LIQUOR NEAR DANCE HALL For having liquor near a hall when a n was m Progress, Allan George whitnall, a second offender, was fined £4; Leonard Albert Clydesdale, Stanislaus John Walsh, William Joseph Lee, Ralph Morrell, and Arnold Alexander Turn bull oaoh £3; and Arthur Thomas Johnston, £2.

unv BRE £ CHES OF ARMS ACT William George Frazier was convicted and ordered to pay costs on a charge of ♦I? hi ® Possession for a longer period than three days a rifle of which he was not the registered owner. Raymond Ratcliff was fined 10s for dedo C so ng a firearm with °ut authority to FINES IMPOSED Anthony Joseph Peter Hennessy was fined 30s, and Thomas Richard Mooney 20s for casting offensive matter in a puohc place. OBSCENE LANGUAGE Duncan Alexander Menzies, aged 18 years, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months on a charge of using obscene language in a public place. ON LICENSED PREMISES Arthur Milton Page was fined 20s for being found on licensed premises after hours. LIQUOR IN DANCE HALL Noel Ebin Robson was fined £3 for being in possession of liquor in a dance hall. ASSAULT Eric Solomon, aged 27 years, who pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting Samuel James Horne and of using obscene language in a public place on December 16, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment on the first charge, and was convicted and discharged on the other. John Amos Palmer Suckling was fined £2 on a charge of assaulting William John Hewer on November 23. Inspector Paine said defendant and others were in a queue at the totalisator at the races, and apparently Suckling tried to take a forefront place in the line. He was thrown out, and when others joined in there was a general melee. “It seemed that the anxiety of accused to get his money on the totalisator was the cause ©f all the trouble,” Inspector Paine said. Mr Dougall, for Suckling, said accused had actually had a bet on a race, but when leaving the totalisator he found that he had been given the wrong ticket, and he had tried to get back in line to have the ticket changed. He was prevented, and he resented being stopped.