MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26633, 19 January 1952, Page 2

MAGISTRATES COURT

*—• ’ : W ( FRIDAY. ' 'WBm (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, CRUELTY TO CHILD Dorothy Smith, aged 2t, a ' pleaded guilty to a charge of wilhdSlr treating and neglecting a five-ygw.' child in such a manner as to c*tai3"Si necessary suffering and injury MSBhealth of the child. ' "IK Detective-Sergeant G. C. Urquhart accused was the mother of two one of which had been left in her^tf 0 She had stayed at a city hnardlmutM* ■’ with a man who was not her She had secured employment boarding-house, where she had the child, whom she had locked in i3Ur room alone for long periods at The child was found to be undSS-i dirty, and unkempt, and when a'dflt welfare officer visited the hn.ritln, fiMr 0 the child was in a room, the o.m!''’ which was locked and the window also fastened. The child, when takiSf hospital, showed evidence of nuSaf 1 tion and bore marks of yloleneelWi' accused disappeared from the bear Mar house and was found living with .S* in a caravan. Accused was remanded until ttqwjF for a report by the Probation OaSr/lr 1 FINED FOR THEFT -jSt George Edward Wilkin, a lahanww B. A. Barrer), who pleaded not riiikW a charge of stealing a quantity MrXSf valued at £l, the property ot AnZS’ Robert Geert Gruppelaar, was convgV and fined £5. DESERTING SEAMAN William Knight, aged 21, a “"tjl. serving a term of imprisonment teilf serting from the overseas ship John on November 26, was ordered tsfewl detained in custody for a further MttK> not exceeding three months. Tl® TRAFFIC BREACHES ’ft Offenders against the traffic were dealt with as follows: Driving without due care and attajJF Jack. Sydney Valentine, fined a jK l warrant of fitness. Ids); Colin SwgX Lancaster, ordered to pay cosSnffig 1 driver’s licence, costs only); Ash!«'jl» bert Sinclair, £3; Rudwln Harry JB® stone, charge dismissed. aMMfc Failing to give wav: Edward KenAML fined £4; Herbert Flfield Reeve. Herbert Lawrence Palntln, £4; JUSM, MacDonald Fraser, charge dlsui||n Jeram Gooal, charge dismissed; Rojdjtil Lewis .Valmont McDonald. 30r; Wafil* John Ross, ordered to pay costl W driver’s licence, costs only). Failing to keep to left: Edward MAH fined 30s. : No warrant of fitness: Cynthia Milt more, fined 10s. Crossing railway line when not dtt Unice Ettrick, fined £2. Insufficient lights: Daniel RicW Reynolds, fined 10s (no warrant if > ness, 10$; no driver's licence, 10s),