MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26886, 12 November 1952, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

TUESDAY (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT Alexander McGregor, aged 28, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge that on November 10 he stole a radio, valued at £36, the property of Alexander Forbes Cooper. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Detective-Sergeant E. G. Ward said that McGregor was unemployed at present and had no fixed abode. A complaint was made by Cooper that he had lent McGregor a radio, and it had not been returned. McGregor later admitted that he had pawned the radio’ for £B. He had previously been before the Court. The Magistrate said that McGregor had been convicted on three charges of unlawfully converting cars to his own use. If he did not mend his ways he would be heading for a long term in prison. YOUTH ADMITS THEFT

Morris Frederick Barr, aged 18, a labourer, pleaded guilty to charges that on October 17 he stole £4 10s, the property of Enid Bertha Thompson, and that on November 3 he stole 71 gramophone records valued at £l4 4s, the property of Roy Wheeler Seddon. He was remanded to November 18 for sentence, pending a report by the Probation Officer.

Senior-Sergeant J. C. Fletcher said that Barr was a problem child. He was not working, and was just drifting. He had been permitted to go along to the man's room and play the records. Barr said he was hard up, took the records, and sold them to a second-hand dealer. The other charge concerned the loss of a purse and money by a girl travelling on a bus from Waikuku. It was found that Barr was a passenger on the bus that day, and, when he was interviewed, he admitted taking the purse and £4 10s from it. REMANDED Clifford William James Hoyne, aged 22, a labourer, was remanded till Monday on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use on November 8 at motor-car valued at £450, the property of John Oakley. Andrew Hugh McGregor Stevenson, aged 49. a publican (Mr R. Twyneham), was remanded_ to November 18 on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car in Lincoln road on November 11.

Bail was allowed in his own recognisance of £25.

Frank Robert McWatt, aged 39, a roofing specialist, was remanded to November 18 on a charge that, on December 24, 1951, he stole a bicycle, valued at £lB, the property of Edward John Sole. Bail was allowed in the sum of £2O.

Maurice Stuart, aged 25, was remanded to Monday when charged with a breach of his probation order by failing to report to the Probation Officer.