MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) OBSCENE LANGUAGE Raymond James Hellyer, a truck driver, aged 23, and Raymond Francis Patrick Foley, a factory worker, aged 21, were each sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of using obscene language in a milk bar in Colombo street on July 21. Foley was also charged with wilfully damaging a police constable’s cape, valued at £1 12s 6d, thereby committing mischief. He was convicted and ordered to make restitution of £1 12s 6d. Sub-Inspector G. H. L. Holt said that both accused were fairly well known to the Court. The cape was torn in two and was now useless. Daniel O’Sullivan, a dealer, aged 35, was fined £3 on a charge of using obscene language in High street on July 21. Reginald Leonard Egan, who pleaded not guilty, was fined 20s on a charge of using obscene language in High street on May 1. ASSAULT CHARGES A charge against Terrence Coneilus Hennessy, sawmill hand, of assaulting Reginald Leonard Egan, on May 1, was dismissed. Mr R. A. Young appeared for defendant. Gordon .Alexander Anderson was fined £5 on a charge of assaulting William John Taylor on June 26. Mr D. W. Russell appeared for Anderson. LOTTERY CONDUCTED Jack Ramsden, a business agent, aged 41, pleaded guilty to a charge that, on May 8, he conducted a lottery by which a prize was obtained by chance. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that the accused raffled two leather travel bags in the bar of the Phoenix Hotel at Papanui, and had made a profit of 8s on each bag. Mr J. A. Wicks, who appeared for Ramsden, said that Ramsden had sold a number of bags to help a former serviceman, who made them. He had two bags left and raffled them in the hotel bar. Ramsden was fined 20s. LICENSING BREACHES Leslie Victor Crothers, licensee of the Racecourse Hotel, Riccarton, pleaded guilty to a charge of opening his premises for the sale of liquor after hours on June 10; Victor Arps, barman at the hotel, pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying liquor after hours. Sub-Inspector G. H. L. Holt said that the police visited the hotel at 7.40 p.m. on June 10, and several men were drinking in the bar. The licensee accepted responsibility, though they had been served by the barman. Mr R. A. Young, who appeared for both defendants, said that Crothers had been a hotel licensee for seven years and this would be his first conviction. He was not in the hotel when the men were served with liquor but was out in the yard. Crothers was fined £2 and Arps was fined £3. James Kinlock, Peter Brook, Thomas Sheehan, and Lester Heward were each fined 20s on a charge of being found on licensed premises, the Racecourse Hotel, after hours on June 10. LIQUOR NEAR DANCE HALL Timothy Daniel McNeill, Robert Down Morten, and James Lloyd Wright were each fined £3 on a charge of being in possession of liquor near the Tai Tapu Hall, on June 25. while a dance was bemg held there. Stanley John Stuckey was fined £3 on a charge of being found in possession of liquor near the Realm Dance Hall, on June 19, while a dance was being held there. OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR Joseph Charles Stableforth, a foundry employee, aged 26, who was represented by Mr W. F. Tracy, was fined £2 on a charge of behaving in an offensive manner in Pages road, on April 9. CHIMNEY FIRES Jaimes Martin Fulford was fined 10s on a charge of allowing a chimney to catch fire. On a similar charge. Avis Dorothy Ryman was convicted and ordered to pay costs, 13s. REMANDED Arthur Bowers McKenzie, a restaurant proprietor, aged 37, was remanded to July 29 on a charge that, on July 6, being the driver of a motor-car on Moorhouse ave- : nue and an accident, arising either directly or indirectly from the use of the car, having occurred to Derrick Vaughan Mess, , he failed to stop and ascertain whether ' he had injured Mess. Sub-Inspector G. H. L. Holt said that a fixture had been made for yesterday (Thursday), but inquiries were not completed. Mr D. W. Russell, who appeared for McKenzie, said this would mean that the case would not come on to the October session of the Supreme Court. He asked that bail be allowed and that the onerous duty of reporting to the police be dispensed • with.

McKenzie was allowed bail in his own recognisance of £5O and one surety of £5O.

Alfred Leonard Lake, a pensioner, aged 62, was* charged with being deemed to be a rogue and a vagabond in that he was found by night, without lawful excuse, on the premises of John G. S. Holmes, at 39 Hansons lane, on July 22. He elected to be tried by a jury ana was remanded until July 29. Phyllis Evelyn Martin, a factory worker, aged 20, of Wellington, was remanded to appear in the Magistrate's Court at Wanganui, on July 29, on a charge that, on September 17, 1946, with intent to defraud, she obtained the sum of £3 10s from Zella May Atwood by falsely representing that she and Noel Henry Owens and Lyall Keith were established in business. She was allowed bail in her own recognisance of £2O and ordered to report daily to the police. Martin, who was represented by Mr W. T. Tracy, pleaded not guilty to a charge that, on October 8, 1946, at Christchurch, with intent to defraud, she obtained from the Universal Fur Company a costume, valued at £6 6s, and the sum of £3 14s by falsely representing that a cheque for £lO was good and valid. After hearing evidence, the Magistrate said he was satisfied the information should be dismissed. The defendant was scarcely more than a child when the cheque was cashed and she was under the domination of the man Owens. The charge was dismissed. THEFT OF MUTTON William Frederick Oakley, a bushman, aged 18, and Maurice Harold Dibben, a farm labourer, aged 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a carcase of mutton, valued at £2, the property of Gilbert Hutton Grigg. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that the two accused were cutting wood on contract at Hororata. On July 12 Dibben killed a sheep and took the carcase to the hut he and Oakley occupied. Half the carcase was * given to another man. Oakley was remanded in custody for a week, for a report by the probation officer, and Dibben was remanded in custody for a week for sentence. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT Judgment by default was entered for the plaintiffs, for the amount stated, in each of the following civil claims:—the Drapery and General Importing Company of New Zealand, Ltd. v. C. E. Clarkson, £lO 16s 7d; Hay’s Limited v. A. R. Brickland, £l2 6s 6d; G. T. White, Ltd. v. H. Reid, £l3 Is; W. Stephenson v. S. Tolchard, £2l 15s; H. V. Lockey v. Gordon Cameron, £3 16s 4d. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES On judgment summonses H. Kearns was ordered to pay the Papanui Timber Company the sum of £2l 7s lid forthwith, in default 23 days* imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays 10s a week. G. Dodds was ordered to pay G. Homig the sum of £33 9s 4d forthwith, in default 34 days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended for three days. POSSESSION CASES Francis William Shires and Annie Alice Shires sought an order for possession of a tenement, at 20 Darvel street, from J. Stevenson. The order was refused. An order for possession of a tenement at 4 Wakefield avenue, Sumner, on or before August 19, was made in favour of Ida Nunnick, against Charles Goodman.