LYTTELTON NEWS
MAGISTRATE’S > COURT
CONVERSION OF BICYCLE Robert John Hawes, a seaman, aged 21, pleaded not guilty before Messrs W. T. Lester and F. H. Heal, Justices of the Peace, at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday, to converting to his own use a bicycle valued at £lO, the property of Douglas Henry Smith. Evidence was given by Constable N. J. Rutherford that he had seen the accused trying to mount the bicycle in Norwich quay, and had taken him into custody. Senior-Sergeant F. Hayhurst said that me taking and interfering with bicycles had become serious lately in Lyttelton, and bicycles taken had been recovered from various ships. Hawes was convictmem nd sentenced to 14 da y s ’ imprison-
Fines Imposed Graham Spurgeon Scott, a third offend- £ or „2 r unkenness, was convicted and fined £5. On a charge of having cast offensive matter on the footpath he was convicted and fined £1
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26159, 8 July 1950, Page 10
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152LYTTELTON NEWS Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26159, 8 July 1950, Page 10
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