MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25737, 24 February 1949, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

(Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) DEFERRED SENTENCE Thomas James Dyer (Mr G, C. Sand* ston). aged 27, pleaded guilty to a charge of usiiw obscene language and behaving in a disorderly manner when drunk in Hereford street on February 12. Detective-Sergeant G. W. Alty said the accused had used the language complained of outside the Central Police Station.- He had thrdwn a piece of masonry through the door of the detectives' branch and he had later thrown al Kiece at Detective-Sergeant Brady, who ad been struck on the shin. When questioned the accused said he had gone to the station to throw stones at a detective he did not like. Mr Sandston said Dyer’s history suggested some abnormality in his makeup. He had no reflection of the happenings alleged. z He was obviously to need of treatment. The Magistrate told Dyer he presented a very difficult problem and was apparently under the impression that he could go through life playing under his own rules. He had been to the war but he was up against the law before and after the war and possibly was up against the military authorities during the war. The Magistrate said he was in two minds whether he should not send the accused to gaol. Instead he would Rive him one last opportunity to make good. Dyer was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called' on within 12 months, conditions being that he undergo treatment prescribed for him, and that he take out a prohibition order. BREACH OF SALES TAX ACT Lionel Hubert Logan pleaded guilty when charged by the Collector of Customs with failing to furnish a wholesaler's return within 28 days as required by the Sales Tax Act, 1932-33. Mr A. W. Brown, representing tha Collector of Customs, said the defendant had failed to furnish returns after being asked repeatedly to do so. It was simply a matter of long-standing neglect and, while there were 10 offences, the defendant had been prosecuted for only one. Logan said for a time he was out of business and did not manufacture. What he did manufacture was exempt from, sales tax. Logan was fined £5 and ordered to pay solicitor's fee, £2 2s.