MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25394, 17 January 1948, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid. S.M.) REHEARING GRANTED Stanley Healey and Stanley Albert Dulley. both seamen, applied for a rehearing of the charge of stealing, at Lyttelton on November 17. 1947, three cases of gin, valued at £23, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that the two men were members of the crew of the Fort Pic. which was at .present on the New Zealand coast. The accused were sentenced on November 18 to three ninths’ imprisonment on the charge, and ordered to be put on board the Fort Pic. The ship would leave New Zealand on Monday and the captain wanted to take the accused back. They were keen to go and had asked for a rehearing of the case. The charge was then read to them and the accused pleaded guilty. Each man was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within four days, if called upon, on condition that he join the Fort Pic forthwith. FALSE PRETENCES Alfred Sydney Kerr, aged 43. a labourer, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining the styn of £7 10s from Luigi Franesco Zanderigo, at Otahuhu, on October 8. 1947, by falsely representing that he was in a position to supply corrugated iron to the value of £B7. He also plehded guilty to a charge of obtaining £lO from Charles Frederick Cheeseman. at Whangarei. on October 11. 1947, by falsely representing tnat he was in a position to supply corrugated iron to the value of £llO. Detective-Sergeant Herron said tnat Kerr was serving a sentence of 12 months’ hard labour at present, for false pretences at Greymouth. When Kerr was in the North Island he approached the complainants, who ordered the corrugated iron and paid a deposit. Kerr had no iron to sell. "He has an extensive list: he has been before the Court 69 times,” added Detective-Sergeant Herron. Kerr said that when he was sentenced at Greymouth last month on a similar charge, he gave the police every assistance to clear the matter up. He thought the two present charges had been taken into consideration. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each charge, concurrent with the sentence he is now serving. REMANDED Forbes Hilary Maindonald, aged 26, a painter, appeared on remand on a charge of indecently assaulting a male on January S. Sub-Inspector J. Crowley asked for a further remand to January 22, stating that a fixture had been made for that day. Mr C. S. Thomas, counsel for the accused, did not object and Maindonald was remanded to January 22. Bail was renewed in his own recognisance of £5O and one surety of £5O. TRAFFIC CASES Penalties for traffic breaches were fixed as follows: Failing to give way: William Kingsford Andrews, £3; John Archie Coombs, £2; Maurice Leslie Griffiths, £3; Walter Reginald Brook Oliver, £2; Clifford Angus Keats, 20s. Cycling at night without a light: Thomas Charteris. 20s; Rex Edwin Fearon, costs only (no red reflector 10s, no white rear mudguard 10s); George Alexander Shaw, 20s. Dangerous driving: Frank Free, £5. Driving against traffic lights: Arthur Harrison McLeod, 30s. Driving without due care and attention: Dougald McTainish, £3 (no driver’s licence 10s): Raymond Woolley, £2. Defective foot brakes: Daniel Grant. 20s (no warrant of fitness, costs only). Cycling on footpath: Ronald Tiney, 30s. After hearing the evidence the Magistrate dismissed the information in a case in which Arthur Samuel Wakelyn was charged with falling to signal when drawing out from the kerb.