MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27040, 15 May 1953, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy. S.M.) CONVERSION OF TRUCK

Stanley Lawrence Day, a bootmaker, aged 31, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour on a charge 1 of converting a motor truck valued at £BOO, the property of the Ministry of Works, to his own use at Hororata on April 30. He was convicted and discharged on a charge of breaking the conditions of a probation order. > Detective-Sergeant' E. G. Ward said the t accused was serving a term of imprison- . ment for breach of a maintenance order. He was legally separated from his wife, who lived in Timaru. When arrested the { accused had said he had been worried « about his wife, and had taken a truck from his work at Hororata to go. to see , her. He had been found in the bar of ‘ a Timaru hotel, although he claimed that * he was on his way back to Hororata in ‘ the truck. ASSAULT ON WIFE George Wemyss Wilson (Mr H. W. I Thompson) was convicted and ordered i to come up for sentence if called upon 1 within 12 months upon a charge of assaulting his wife, Lucy Elizabeth Wjlson, at Christchurch on April 14. Wilson pleaded not guilty. 1 Dr. E. Young said he had examined the complainant after the alleged. assault and had found that she had a black eye, ; a small hemorrhage of the white of one , eye, and a bruised shoulder. The complainant said her husband had J left the house after demanding his tea . and had gone out to his bicycle. She : had followed him out, and he had punched her on the top of the head. He had 1 broken her glasses in her face. , IQLE AND DISORDERLY 1 Maureen Joy Melhaskle, aged 19, a : housemaid, pleaded guilty to a charge of being an idle and disorderly person at Lyttelton on May 14, in that she. had insufficient means of support. The Magistrate adjourned the hearing for a ween, warning the accused that she would have to go either to a Salvation Army home or to Mount MagdAla for a week, until the Court could find out something more about her. Senior-Sergeant C. A. G. Mcßae said a ■ constable had found the accused sleepin; on the Lyttelton railway platform at 12.15 a.m. She was with a seaman from an overseas ship. He had sent her to a telephone box to call a-taxi in which to go home to Christchurch, but had later found her asleep on the floor of the telephone box. Asked if she had any money, the accused had produced a purse with Is 6d in it. THEFT OF BICYCLE Charles William Grimmond Home, aged 54, a salesman, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a bicycle valued at £2O, the property of George Sklpp Ellis, on February 17, at Christchurch. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard [ labour. I ELEVEN CAR CONVERSIONS i Kenneth William Joseph Kerr, aged 27, i a labourer and cook, appeared for sentience on 11 charges of unlawfully convert- ' tag motor-vehicles to his own use. three 1 charges of breaking and entering, and two ! charge* of theft. He received concurrent i sentence* totalling three years, and was ordered to appear before the Supreme , Court to be dealt with as a habitual I criminal. , The Magistrate, sentencing Kerr, said It 5 was very disturbing to read his record: ; he had no sense of responsibility. ?he * property was ordered to be returned. • ’ INTERFERING WITH CAR r A man whose name was ordered not to be published was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months when he appeared tor sentence on a charge of interfering with a car at Christchurch on May 11. He was convicted and discharged on charges of being drunk in Lichfield street on the same day, and. Of being in possession of illegal lottery tickets. SUNDAY TRADING On a charge of selling goods on April 19, a Sunday, John MlUer, a shopkeeper, was fined.£2. Mr DE. Ames, tor Miller, said the accused had just opened a shop in Dam road, in a growing area, and was trying to attract custom by providing what he e thought was a good public service. ; PROBATION t Sydney James Smith, aged 33. an engine driver (Mr W. F. Brown), appeared for sentence on a charge of attempting to steal £73 10s, the property of the New - Zealand Government, at Christchurch, on S September 23, 1962. He was admitted to r probation for two years.

ON ENCLOSED PREMISES Bob Kaiwai, aged 31. a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge that on May 14 he was found without lawful excuse, but In

circumstances which did not disclose the commission of, or the intention to commit any other offence, in the enclosed yard of a dwelling at 45 Riccarton road. He was fined £2.

Senior-Sergeant Mcßae said the accused had told the police he slept on the veranda of the house because it was raining and he had nowhere to go. REMANDED George Stanley Butler Wilmott, aged 54, a labourer (Mr W; F. Brown), was remanded for a week on a charge of stealing a bicycle, valued at £l5. the property of James Henry Robinson, at Christchurch, on or about February 7. Bail was allowed in the accused’s own recognisance of £2O with one surety of £2O. Lionel! Abbott Urquhart, aged 29, an electrician (Mr H. S. Thdmas), was remanded on the application of the police until May 21 on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found at night without lawful excuse in a bedroom in McKendry’s Hotel, Cashel street. Bail was allowed in the accused’s own recognisance of £2O, with one' surety of £5O.

On a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a car in Frankleigh street on May 13, Henry Carmichael Anderson, aged 48, a fanqer (Mr H. S. Thomas), was remanded for one week. Bail was allowed at £25. Albert Gordon Peebles, aged 44, a labourer (Mr D. E. Ames), was remanded, on Mr Ames’s application, until May 18 on a charge of obscene exposure in Oxford terrace on April 28. Frederick William Barrett, aged 32, a drainlayer (Mr W. F. Brown) was remanded for a week for a Probation Officer’s report on a charge of stealing a window frame, valued at £6, the property of Frederick Pooley, at Christchurch on May 8. Bail was renewed. On joint charges of stealing a pair of denims valued at 24s 9d, the property of Menswear, Ltd., and of attempting to steal a jacket valued at £8 9s lid, the property of Galvin’s Menswear, Ltd., on May 13 at Christchurch. Donald John Mac Neil, aged 36. a painter, and Thomas Joseph Ward Hogan, aged 45. a painter, were remanded for one week. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) POSSESSION CLAIMS Thomas A. King, a baker (Mr S. J. Mann, of the Department of Labour), was ordered to give possession of premises at 12 Walsall street to Noel S. D. Shuker. of Broad Creek. Arthur's Pass (Mr E. C. Champion) on or before June 14. The plaintiff claimed possession of the premises on the ground that they were reasonably required by him for his own occupation. The plaintiff had not proved that his hardship would be greater without an order for possession than the defendant's

if an order were made, said the Magistrate, when Russell Waiter Soper, a clerk, of Christchurch (Mr M. W. Simes), claimed possession of a house at 40 Winton- street, from Edward Williams, a council employee (Mr H. W. Hunter), and no order was made. The plaintiff claimed possession of the house on the ground that it was reasonably required for his own occupation as a dwelling. CLAIM AND COUNTER-CLAIM Judgment for the plaintiff was given when Mrs Jeannie Reid Sutherland (Mr E. P. Wills) claimed £l7 17s from the Real Estate and Agency Company (Mr D. W. Russell) for arrears of rent for offices at 191 Manchester street. The plaintiff was also given judgment on- a counter-claim by the defendant for £4 4s. CLAIM UNDER CONTRACT Ernest Robinson, a maltster, of Christchurch (Mr R. Twyneham), was successful in a claim against Alan Walker, a contractor, of 173 Wainoni road, for £lO, claimed to be owing to the plaintiff under a wood splitting contract at Burwood in [August, 1951.