MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25362, 9 December 1947, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) BOOKMAKER FINED William Joseph Brosnahan, aged 52 (Mr J. K. Moloney), who pleaded guilty to carrying on the business of a bookmaker on December 6, was convicted and fined £l5. REMANDED Owen Donald Walker, aged 28, was remanded to December 15 on charges of stealing on June 11 a bicycle, a suit, a pair of trousers, and a camera, of a total value of £35 12s, the property of Allan Armstrong McCall. John Frances Harnett, aged 26, was remanded to December 18 on a charge of stealing a piano accordion valued at £l2O from the dwelling-house of Colin Maitland Stocker on November 22 Bail was granted accused on his own recognisance of £5O, and one surety of £5O. a condition being that accused report daily to the police. Leslie George Smith, aged 35, was remanded to December 11 on charges of stealing material valued at £B9, the property of J. Ballantyne and Company, Ltd., on November 20. Bail was allowed in the sum of £5O, and one surety of £5O. Alfred Lawford Lake, aged 37, was remanded to December 11 on a charge of stealing material valued at £4O, the property of J. Ballantyne and Company, Ltd. Bail was allowed in the sum of £5O, and one surety of £5O. INFORMATION DISMISSED “There is a conflict of evidence here,’’ said the Magistrate when he dismissed the information laid against Patrick Joseph Schimanski, aged 25 (Mr J. K. Moloney), who pleaded not guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-cycle on December 6.

SUSPENDED SENTENCE Errol Torrance, aged 29 (Mr R. A. Young), was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 18 months on a charge of receiving from Fred Chadwick a radio set valued at £22 10s, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. Mr Young said Torrance had purchased the radio set for £5, but at the time of the purchase he did not know the machine had been stolen. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Fred Chadwick, aged 35 (Mr H. S. Clarke), pleaded guilty to receiving a wireless set and a gramophone valued at £Bl 18s 3d, knowing these articles to have been dishonestly obtained. Accused was remanded to appear at the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was renewed in the sum of £lOO, and one surety of £lOO. Roscius Henry Glubb, manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association at Leeston, said that his firm’s premises were broken into on September 9-10, and goods valued at £283 6s 8d were stolen, including three radio sets and a gramophone. He identified two radio sets produced as his firm’s property, and said that the other radio and the gramophone were similar to articles which had been stolen from his firm. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Frank lan Anderson, aged 21 (Mr D. J. Hewitt), was charged with receiving from Fred Chadwick on October 22, a radio set and gramophone valued at £3O 13s, knowing the articles to have been dishonestly obtained. Fred Chadwick, who had previously pleaded guilty to charges of receiving goods, including a gramophone, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained, said accused had seen the articles in a room at his (Chadwick’s) place. Anderson had paid him £5 for the radio set and £2 for the gramophone. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Ban was allowed in the sum of £lOO and one surety of £lOO.