LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25244, 24 July 1947, Page 4

LYTTELTON NEWS

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.. presided in the Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton yesterRamsbottom Isherwood. Clarence Ramsbottom Isherwood, and Hall Keenan were each charged with being unlawfully on the premises of the Lyttelton Bowling Club. They pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant F. Hayhurst said that considerable damage had been done to the bowling green at nights by persons who had no right to be there. Each of the defendants was convicted and fined £l. On charges of having liquor near a dance hall, the same three defendants were each convicted and fined £3. Costs were ordered to be paid on all the charges. Thomas Edward Norris, for having liquor near a dance hall, was convictea and fined £3 and ordered to pay costs. Harry Clarkson and Maurice David Dacombe, who pleaded guilty to charges of being on the premises of the Lyttelton Hotel after hours, were each convicted and fined £1 and ordered to pay costs. William Henry Liddicoat was charged with, being a person other than the licensee, supplying liquor on the premises of the Lyttelton Hotel after hours. He pleaded guilty and was fined £5. Percy Frank William Walker, licensee of the Lyttelton Hotel, charged! with selling, through his barman, liquor after hours, pleaded guilty and was fined £l. Both defendants were ordered to pay costs. The Transport Department proceeded against Reuben Charles Whitford Herbert McDonald Whitford, and Phyllis Mary Dobson, trading as Whitford and Company, for failing to display a cab authority in a taxi-cab. The defendants were each fined 10s and ordered to pay costs. On a similar charge. William Stephen Tredennick was fined £1 and ordered to pay costs. „ In cases brought by the borough traffic inspector (Mr H. G. Ablett), Peter John Pierce and Raymond Edward Williams, for driving motor-cycles without being the holders of drivers’ licences, were each fined £l. For having no warrants of fitness, they were fined 10s, costs being additional on each charge. Ruby Agnes Mason claimed possession of a dwelling-house from Hetty Mabel McDonald, also arrears of rent. An order was made for possession forthwith, no warrant to be issued for three months provided the defendant pays current rent regularly. Judgment was given for the plaintiff for £ll 16s 9d arrears of rent and for £4 15s 9d for mesne profits.