MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

(Before Mr F. F. Reid. S.M.) FINED ON TWO CHARGES Lloyd Keith Ringdahl was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs 10s for driving a motor-truck in a built-up area at a speed exceeding 30 miles an hour. He was also fined £3 and ordered to pay costs 16s for using obscene language. He pleaded guilty to both charges.

ON LICENSED PREMISES lan Keith McKane was fined £1 and ordered to pay costs 10s for being found on licensed premises, the Central Hotel, after hours. He was also fined £2 and ordered to pay costs 10s for removing liquor from the hotel after hours. Raymond William Sturgess was fined 30s and ordered to pay costs 10s for being on licensed premises, the Heathcote Arms Hotel, after hours.

COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Angus Donoghue, a labourer, aged 22, Pleaded guilty to breaking and entering he premises of St. Martin’s House of Help and stealing a cheque book valued at 10s. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Donoghue also pleaded guilty to obtaining £2 by means of a valueless cheque. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, the sentence to be cumulative on the sentences he is already serving. FINES IMPOSED . Gordon Hugh Ayson was fined 30s and ordered to pay costs 10s for casting offensive matter in a public place. His request for the suppression of his name was refused. George William Samuel, aged 18, was fined £3 and ordered to pay costs 10s on a charge of wilfully committing a grossly indecent act in a public place. The Magistrate refused a request to suppress his name. RATIONING BREACHES Jack Kenneth Welsford (Mr G. G. Lockwood), a butcher, of Lyttelton, was fined £5 on each of three charges brought under the rationing regulations. He was ordered to pay costs 10s on each charge. REMANDED Arthur Ronal Morris (Mr J. K. Moloney), a railway porter, aged 24, was remanded until October 2 on a charge of assaulting a woman with intent to commit rape. Bail was renewed in his own recognisance of £lOO and two sureties of £lOO each. Thomas William Parry, a labourer, aged 40, was remanded until October 2 on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of the Perfection Ice Cream Company, Ltd., with intent to commit a crime. He was granted bail in his own recognisance of £lOO and two sureties of £lOO each. He is to report daily to the police. Edna Mary Price, aged 40, was remanded to appear at Timaru on a charge that, at Temuka on September 11, she murdered Graham Frederick Price,, aged five months. . , Richard Goughian, a labourer, aged 57, was remanded until October 2 on a charge of being found drunk in a public place, having been convicted three times within the last six months.