MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25090, 23 January 1947, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

« WEDNESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid. S.M.) IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR Chong Ge Gay. aged 47 years, was charged &ith being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found on the night of January 15 in possession of housebreaking implements.

Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Sub-Inspector J. J. Crowley, representing the police, said the accused had been seen by constables acting suspiciously in Madras street on January 15. At 1.20 a.m. accused had been seen inspecting the doers of the King George Hotel with a torch, and had then crossed the street and was apparently investigating the doors of Armstrongs. Ltd., drapers. When the constable approached him he tried to get away • on his bicycle. The explanation he gave of his behaviour did not satisfy the constable, and the accused was taken tn the police station. When crossing Hereford street bridge he threw something into the river, and m a search next day the police found a steel rod which accused explained was a tool used lor gardening. Through an interpreter, the accused said the piece of steel was used for weed-* ing, and to measure the distance between each plant in a row of lettuces.

< REMANDED Cecil Geoffrey Turnbull, aged 30 years, was remanded to January 30 on a charge of stealing sums of money of a total value of £43 19s 2d, the property of William Forde.

Bail was allowed in the sum of £lOO, and one surety of £lOO. Noel Lovain Bremner (Mr J. K. Moloney), aged 32 years, was remanded to January 29 on a charge of stealing a bicycle and goods of a total value of £29 10s, the property of Evelyn Alice Penny. Bail was allowed in the sum of £5O and one surety of £5O. " RUBBISH ON PUBLIC ROAD Helen Sinclair Denford (Mr E. A. Lee) was convicted and ordered to pay costs, including solicitor’s fee, £1 11s 6d, on a charge of placing rubbish on a public road contrary to the by-laws of the Waimairi County Council. Mr J. D. Hutchison, representing the Waimairi County Council, said the offence in itself was not a serious one; but a multiplicity of such offences put council employees to a great deal of inconvenience when mowing the uoadsides. Defendant had dumped two bags of rubbish .in Wairarapa road. The council had previously informed residents by advertisement that prosecutions would follow the dumping of rubbish on roads in the county.

Mr Lee said defendant, who was teaching her son to drive, had taken two bags of rubbish in a motor-car with the intention of dumping the contents in the river-bed. The road carried a lot of scrub, and defendant, who had not seen the advertisement, acted innocently. CHARGE WITHDRAWN When the District Employment Officer proceeded against Lawrence Albert Baigent for failing to comply with an order issued under the National Service Regulations requiring him to pay to the secretary of the Special Tribunal the sum of £4 16s a week, Mr A. .W. Brown, representing the defendant, asked permission to withdraw the charge. Mr Brown said defendant had been required to pay amounts of wages earned in excess of the amount fixed by the Tribunal. Baigent had now paid after putting up excuses. "The war is over," said Mr Brown, “and the regulations were introduced because of war conditions.” Permission to withdraw the charge was granted. •»