MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26199, 24 August 1950, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) NO-SHOOTING LICENCE Clifford Benjamin Bowman, Lionel Morris Denton, and Alex. Young were each fined £5 on a charge of shooting game when they did not have a licence. Arnold Walter Knight was finfed £2 on a charge of using a /power-boat to take game on Lake Ellesmere.

, TOO MANY DECOYS Albert Edward Batchelor was fined £2 on a charge of using more than 15 artificial decoys at one time while shooting at the Waimakariri river on May 6. These prosecutions were brought by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, for Which Mr T. A. Gresson appeared.

SHORT-WEIGHT COAL Harry James Carter, a coal merchant, trading as F. Carter and Son (Mr W. K. L. Dougall), was fined £6 on a charge of selling short-weight coal on July 10. Mr S. J. Mann, of the Department of Labour, said that only one of 22 bags on a truck was the correct weight. One bag was 27 pounds under weight and it was the subject Of the prosecution. Mr Douga'l said that the employees of the firm were supposed to weigh the coal as it was unloaded and bagged at the Waltham railway yard. The scales at the railway yard were broken and had been removed to Carter’s coal yard. Carter had not been to the railway yard and did not know the scales were out of action. The defendant was much upset about the prosecution, for he had a reputation for fair dealing. There was nothing intentional about the offence. “This is a bad case of its type and the responsibility is on the employer,” said the Magistrate.