LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25161, 17 April 1947, Page 3

LYTTELTON NEWS

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Pleading guilty at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday to charges of selling liquor after hours and with permitting liquor to be consumed on the, premises after hours, Henry George Scott, licensee of the Saxon Hotel, was convicted and fined £lO on each charge. A charge of exposing liquor for sale was withdrawn by the police. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., was on the Bench. The following were each convicted and fined £2 for consuming liquor on the licensed premises of the Saxon Hotel after hours—Phillip Arthur David Scorring, Harry Mitchell Thomas, Stanley George Young, Norman Owen Porteous, Francis Joseph Bradburn, Arthur Cedric Schenkel, William Leonard McGinty On a prosecution brought by the Transport Department, Alan Jackson, for having no driver’s licence, was convicted and fined £1 and ordered to pay Frederick Ernest Sutton, trading as F. E. Sutton and Company, auctioneers (Mr E. C. Champion), claimed from Norris and Wearne, carriers, the sum ol 19s. the -value of goods alleged to have been wrongfully removed after an auction sale. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, witn costs.

St. John Ambulance Brigade The annual inspection of the St.John Ambulance divisions and cadet corps at Lyttelton was field cn Tuesday night at the St. John Amo ilance rooms. Mr jW. Burgess. Corps Officer, was m charge of the parade. Visiting officials were the Assistant-Commissioner, Commander C. HKersley; district secretary, Mr G Dunlop; corps superintendent. Mr W. Osman, corps secretary, Mrs C. J. Poulton; lady district officer in charge of voluntary aids. Miss L. P. Butler, nursing cadets, and Mr W. G. Whitmore, cadet officer. _-