MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25240, 19 July 1947, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

(Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) REMAND GRANTED On a charge of failing to comply with the terms of a probation order, Basil Joseph Foley, alias Basil Patrick Joseph Foley, a labourer, aged 22, was remanded to appear next Monday. Bail was fixed at £lO. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Appearing for sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful visible means of support, Alfred William Donaldson, alias Alfred William Stanley, alias Alfred Stanley Donaldson, a labourer, aged 54, of no fixed abode, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months. A condition that he return to the Salvation Army home was made. CASE DISMISSED A charge of parking a car without lights on the night of June 25. against Colin Lawrence Sumner, was dismissed. In evidence Sumner said that when he left the car the lights wore on; but when he returned, he noticed that they were cut and a sticker was on the windscreen. On examining the car he noticed a window had been smashed. He believed that the lights had been switched off to enable a theft to be committed in safety. Two overcoats in the car had not been touched. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Offenders against the traffic regulations were fined as follows unless otherwise stated • Driving motor-van without due care and attention—Leonard Robert William Lee (Mr D. W. Russell), £2. Parking without lights.—George Arnold, J 0s; Herbert Clarence Lorraine Browning, 10s: Douglas Gordon Dean. 10s; Lionel Graham, 10s; Errol John Richardson. 10s; Alfred Collins Kent, 10s: Neil Howard McPherson, 10s; Roy Pearson. 10s; William Arthur Sellers, 10s; James An‘thony Toohey. 10s: John William Ernest White, 10s; Ernest Yealands, 10s. Parking near fire-plug.—Cecil George Regan, 10s. Failure to give way.—Phillip Seiwood Austin. 20s. Insufficient lights.—Raymond Frederick Alfred Blowers, 20s (no warrant of fitness, 10s). No light on cycle.—Elma Boyd. 10s; Warren Keil Jones, 20s. (Before Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M.) CONTRACT NOT REGISTERED “I think this is a case for a nominal penalty; but it is essential that employers regard this as one of the most serious obligations they have—there is an element of trusteeship involved," said the Magistrate, fining Stanley Wheatley, garage proprietor (Mr W. R. Lascelles). 10s, for failing to register a contract of apprenticeship. The facts were admitted by defendant. Mr C. P. Collins appeared for the Labour Department. Pleading guilty to a similar charge, V. W. Brunt, a builder, was fined £2. FAILURE TO JOIN UNION A fine of £1 was imposed on Shirley I Harry James, a fitter and turner, for failing to become a union member. It was stated that James had finished his apprenticeship in April last .year, and had since obtained retrospective member-