MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M.) OBSCENE LANGUAGE Beatrice May Passells, aged 66, a domestic, pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in Wainoni road on November 4. Senior-Sergeant A. B. Collinge said the police were called to a house in W’ainoni road on Thursday, about 9.5 p.m., to a domestic dispute between accused and a man who was dealt with earlier in the Court sitting as a first offender for drunkenness. The police succeeded in quietening the dispute and were just leaving when accused used the language complained of. This was the second or third time that the police had- been called to the house recently. Accused had a list for this type of offence. “The language you used was terrific,” said the Magistrate. “I simply cannot pass over your offence in this connexion. Twenty-five times you have been- before the Court and several of your convictions have been for obscene language. You need a sharp lesson,” gaid the Magistrate. Passells was convicted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. NAME SUPPRESSED

A young man who admitted to the police that he had got the idea of passing a valueless cheque as payment for a car through listening to a serial which dealt with confidence tricks was remanded to November 11 for sentence. He pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining from a motor-car dealer a car valued at £435 by a valueless cheque for that amount.

Mr A. Hearn, who appeared for the accused, was granted an application for suppression of accused’s name in the meantime. Bail was allowed in his own recognisance of £2OO with one surety of £2OO.

TRAFFIC CASES Offenders. against the traffic regulations were dealt with as follows in cases brought by the police!'— Driving without due care and attention: George Colin. Anderson, £2 (failed to report accident, £5); John Peter Evans, £2; Barrie Hines, £1; William Mire, £2; Owen Peters, £2. Failed to give way to right: George Allen Blackwell, £2; Clifford Herbert Davey, £2; Alfred George Large, £2 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Jeames Latto, costs (before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.); Neville William Lewis, £2. (no driver’s licence, costs); William Stott, £2. '

No warrant of fitness: Ernest Frank Browne. 10s; Francis Michael Donovan, 10s. (driving unregistered car, £2); Brian James Doyle, 10s; Arthur Albert Kenidge, 10s; Robert Raymond Quartly, £l. Drove motor-cycle without lights: Arthur Brian Leonard, £1 (no warrant of fitness, 10s; no driver’s licence, £1).

No driver’s licence: Gordon Clifford Munro, £1; Paul Osborne, £1 (no warrant of fitness, 10s); Owen Lilian Rees, £1; Douglas Willette, £l. Failed to notify change of ownership ot car: Mary Alice Parker, £2, (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against Lawrence Evan Lester (Mr E. S. Bowie) of driving without due care and attention was dismissed.