MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr R. M. Grant. 8.M.) PRISONERS SENTENCED Albert Walter Gilling, aged 23, a driver, was charged with stealing £2O, the property of John Frederick Macfarlane at Parnassus on January 10. Jointly with Ronald Keith Metcalfe, aged 21, a welder, and Ernest Svmt, aged 21. a labourer. Gilling was charged with unlawful conversion of a motor-truck, valued at £BBO. the property of the Phoenix Aerated Water Company, Ltd,, with the theft of 143 dozen bottles of cordial, valued at £49 15s sd, the property of the same firm; with stealing a rifle and cartridges, valued at £lO, the property of James McKenzie Hulton; 14 gallons of petrol and 30 sticks of pe’ignite, valued at £5, the property of Harold Jewel; a 44-gallon drum and 20 gallons of petrol, valued- at £B. the property of Terrance Gordon Lewis; goods to the value of £3. the property of Ralph Joseph Morbeck Terrill; 30 gallons of petrol, valued at, £7. the . property of Charles Nortnari Page; 10 gallons of petrol, valued at £1 17* «a. the property of British Pavement* (N. 1. Ltd.; nine plug* of blasting powder and 80 deton--itort, valued at £1 10s, the property of the Manawatu Catchment Board; goods •vorth £5, the property of the t.ngley lark Golf Club; and eight gallons of petrel, worth 17s. the property of the Janmer Springs Go’f Club. Tha threb accused had been remanded "or senten-e when they pleaded guilty o a'l charges at a previous sitting of th* Court, and on other chances had been ‘m-nded fcr sentence to the Supreme tourt. ~ , Tii* three accused were convicted and ’.ischarged on all charges. SHIP DESERTION Charles Edwards, who had been *entenced to one month's Imprisonment pending his return to the ship for desertion on December 22 from the British ship. Elm Hill, was ordered to be detained in custody for a further month pending the arrival of the Elm Hill, which is now at Napier. TRAFFIC CASES Offenders aga-nst the traffic regulations were dealt with as follows: Driving without due care and attention: Vera Cawthorn, fined £2; Brian Vincent Mangan, £3 (no warrant of fitness. 10s);. Daniel Grant McCffilooh, 30s; William John Taylor, £2: James Butler Whyte, £3 (no warrant of fitness. 10s); Seffried Sydney Thompson, charge dismissed. No driver’s licence.—Robert James Chamberlain, fined 16s; Alexander Douglas Davison, £l. Failing to give way: Albert Edward Chandler, fined £2; Michac-1 Bruce Cook, £2; William Edward George Dodd. 30s (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Clarence Leslie Rhodes, £l. _ Aiding in commission of offence: Peter Davison, charge dismissed. Alighting from motor-car without giving signal: Patrick John Flood, charge dismissed. No warrant of fitness: Stuart Kenneth Henderson, costs only; Harold Hector King, £l. Riding unlighted cycle at night: Mervyn Hunt, fined 10s; James Edmund Pooley, 10s.