MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) REMANDED John Conrad Norman, aged 27. a truck driver, charged with breaking and entering the shop of May Ada Webb (Strowan Beauty Saloon), at 2 Norman’s road, and committing theft, was remanded until May 12. Ronald Charles O’Connor, aged 20, charged with being a rogue and a vagabond in that he had in his. possession a house-breaking instrument (a jemmy), and with breaking and entering the shop of May Ada Webb, was remanded until May 12. O’Connor was allowed bail in the sum of £2OO and one surety of £2OO. Richard Norman French, aged 46, charged with procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order and with being ’found drunk in a public place, was remanded until to-day for medical examination. John Albert Arthur (Mr E. M. Hay), aged 29, Charged with breaking and entering the shop of Wholesale Boot Company, Ltd., and committing theft on March 19, was remanded until May 19 Bail was allowed in the sum of £lOO and two sureties of £lOO each. IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT John Ward Davis, aged 42. a shoeretailer, who appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing eight pairs of women’s shoes, valued at £l6, the property of Eastmond’s Shoe Store, Ltd., between May 1 and November 1; was - sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour. RATIONING BREACH Riccarton Provisions. Ltd. (Mr E. C. Champion), pleaded guilty to a breach of the Rationing Emergencies Regulations, 1942, by failing to account for 1231 b of butter. Detective-Sergeant R. S. Smith said the company handled about 10001 b of butter a month. The rationing inspector had not received a« satisfactory explanation. Apparently butter had been handed over without presentation of the necessary coupons. Mr Champion said the firm had four employees and the turnover* of butter in a short period was 30001 b. There was no suggestion that there had been any wrong dealing. The only excuse that could be offered wqs that some of the coupons presented had gone astray. The defendant was fined £4.

COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing £lOO from Emma Malone. William Kingsford Leader, aged 23, a barman-porter, was committed to the Sunreme Court fo>’ sentence. Bail was refused, and an order for the return of £B6 of the money which had been recovered was made.

Detective-Sergeant R. S. Smith prosecuted. , • ■ Emma Malone, a married woman, of 96 Chester street, said she conducted a boarding-house. She found that £ 100. in. £5 notes, yvas missing from a cash box in her room on April 25 and that a window had been forced with an axe Leader was a boarder in her house up to April 25. when she gave him notice to leave. Leader had admitted responsibility for the theft when interviewed the following day, said Detective N. W. Wylie. Leader had shown witness a roll of notes amou-ting to £B6 hidden under a stack of coal in the Market Hotel, where accused worked. Leader made a statement in which he said that he entered Mrs Malone’s room twice on April 25, the second time after forcing a window. □nd had taken a sum of money each time. Corroborative evidence was given by \cting-Detective R. P. Callanan. ON LICENSED PREMISES AFTER HOURS John Frame was fined £1 for being "ound on the licensed premises of the Jcmin on Hotel after hours. HOTEL LICENSEE WARNED "Any further breach of the act within six months might cause the defendant to lose his licence,” said the Magistrate when convicting DennLs Coffey, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, of aiding and abetting the commission of an offence under the Licensing Act. Coffey had been before the Court on March 10 for a breach of the act, but only a small fine could be imposed for this offence, said the Magistrate, when fining Coffey 20s. Sub-Inspector G. H. L. Holt said that when the police visited the hoteU.aftor 9 p.m. on March 18 it was about five minutes before they were admitfed. They found 28 persons, who were not entitled to be there, on the premises. ’ Theie had been complaints of after-hour and Sunday trading at the hotel, he said. Coffey was upstairs playing cards with his wife when the police arrived, said Mr D. H. Godfrey. This might account for the delay in admitting the Defendant did not know of the presence of unauthorised persons until he got downstairs. The following were each fined 20s foi being-on the premises of the hotel after hours:—James D. J. Beattie, Mary Beissel, Eileen Mary Bilmer, Arthur Verdon Blakeway, Geoffrey Lawrence Bramble. Alfred John Green. Daphne Jenny Hill. Winstone Jack Hill. Francis Joseph McGrath, Rona Browning, Daphine Aldine Paige Burns, Frederick Cory, Edward John Cuddon, Reymond Fryer, Francis Archibald Hartley, Frank Joyce,. Geoffrey Bernard Moore. Margaret Saunders. William Leslie Saunders. George Tideman, Josephine Woodham. John Henry Clifford. Ernest Alfred Dawson, John’ Lawr&ncc Williams. Norman Leslie Dawson. John Patrick Mullally, Thomas. James Mullally. Thomas Arthur Henry Trezise. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) POSSESSION OF HOUSE Allan Wyke was ordered to give possession of a house at 20 Hoon Hay road. Halswell. to James Thomas Wicks before June 30. 1949. Mr H. S. J. Goodman appeared< for the plaintiff, and the rents officer. Mr L. H. Armstrong,’ for the defendant. PAYMENT FOR GOODS DISPUTED J. C. Baker and T. C. Roberts, trading as the Papanui Wrecking Company, were awarded judgment for £5 10s in a claim against P. Venter. Mr K. J. McMenamin. for the plaintiffs, said that Venter had bought a gear box for £2O from the company. He had agreed to pay for it With £l6 in cash and by trading in a gear hex of his own. at £lO. He had paid £4 10s in cash, but had not paid the other £5 10s or delivered his gear box. The company was claiming £l5 10s. The allegations in the plaintiffs' claim were denied by Mr R. Twyneham, who aopeared for Venter. Venter claimed that he had paid the £4 10s for engine parts which he had received from the firm. JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT Thompsons Drapery. Ltd., was given judgment by default for £3 15s in a claim against G. Ayers.