MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26205, 31 August 1950, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) INTOXICATED MOTORIST Ernest William Farrier, aged 53, a tailor (Mr C. S. Thomas), pleaded guilty to a charge -of being intoxicated in charge ot a car in Harper avenu» on August 29. He was lined £8 and his driver’s licence was Suspended for 12 months. NAVAL RATINGS FINED Albert Aubrey John Scale and JamS Samuel .Martin, both aged 18, naval ratings in H.M.S. Veryan Bay, pleaded guilty to interfering with a mowr-car valued at £l5O, the property of John Armstrong Bell. Each was fined £3. Detectives in a patrol car had seen the men opening the doors of the car, said Detective-Sergeant G. W. Alty. When arrested, they admitted that they had interfered with other parked cars and said they had honked the horhs, but had noV entered the cars or tried to drive them. Their excuse was that they had been celebrating a birthday. They were not drunk, but slightly intoxicated. SMOKING IN BAKEHOUSE Sidney Creagh and James Mclnnea. for whom Mr T. A. Gresson appeared, were each fined £5 for smoking in the bakehouse of Newmarket. Ltd., on June 1. Both pleaded,-not g-ullty. The prosecution” was conducted by Mr A. W. Brown, appearing iSpr the Medical Officer ot Health.

A , cowlaint had been made to the Health -Deportment about a cigarette butt , £ and the Proprietors had bg?n < ealt with, Mr Brown said. An inspector of the department had visited the bakehouse early in the morning of the day! aft fr the complaint had been received and through a window had seen both tie defendants smoking. When he was admitted to the bakehouse neither defendant was smoking, both denied that they had been, and there was no indicaTh® men were not workat. me time, but the regulations prohibited smoking anywhere in a bakehouse.

Jack Reginald McGeorge, a health inspector. gave evidence that he had seen the defendants smoking. ♦v. F ? r the defence Robert James Bartholomew Reed, foreman at the bakeSaid th , at he £ ad not seen th ® defendants smoking. Both defendants also gave evidence, saying that they never sn ?<2^? d inside the bakehouse. I, helteve the evidence of the inspecusaid the Magistrate "It clekr. he n£ as n °t shaken by cross-examina-tion. The evidence of the defendants Smce Sh pmni and 1 b ® llcve neither of them. »nH C have been prosecuted . and held liable, it seems appropriate that befor^+hn 1 r° ff^ nde I S should be brought before the Court. A penalty of up to £lO is provided xor smoking in a bakehouse." , TUESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) t j JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF plairfffff l° r 18 £ was given tha plaintiff in a claim brought by Georee Coleman and. his son, John Robert Colef?rmers -’ of Weedons (Mr C. S. rtZ’io”!? 8 ’♦ against Wilfred Melton LangM i r C- Brassin gton), the trustee and sole beneficiary of the estate • f Mr 8 l ? n ?L er ’ o£ Weed onsThomas said there had been an agreement between George Coleman nnrf 801 l whereby Coleman and his had £94 St XI Bel l h , ls farm - The claim of not for labo ur, but for the use ThI n Si to?ry a *? d ®°°ds supplied to Ben rec 2Tu kept Was a diary of the’ in 1945. The last full sett lement waa for £57 15s 6d was given for Rohfrt a similar case brought by Robert Fairburn (Mr B. McClelland» against Wilfred Melton Langdale-Hunt olaintfff ie in t f ° r f? was given f °r the wm" 1 ff a clai m brought bv Joseph .William Groom (Mr I. D Bennetts) G ea Dffie!vali ald Fred erick Gurdler (Mr B.