MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30210, 15 August 1963, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr H. Roeen, S.M.)

14 DAYS' GAOL

A man was sent to gaol for 14 days when he told the Magistrate that he could not guarantee that he could get a job. Thomas Shearer, aged 42, unemployed, had pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient means of support on August 13. Semior-Sergeent G. M. Cleary said Shearer was found by a constable sitting on a rubbisn tin in High street st 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday. “If you are not prepared to help yourself I don't think there is any point in fining you.” the Magistrate told Shearer.

RESTITUTION ORDERED K. C. King was ordered to pay £26 restitution to the New Zealand Post Office for damage he did to a Post Office cable. King did not appear. OPENED SHOP ILLEGALLY After pleading guilty to a charge of failing to close his shop at 261 A Cashel street on Sunday, June 16, Harold Gunn, a grocer, was convicted and fined £3. FINED £6 For failing to keep » wages and holiday book, Leo W 1fred Timperley. a sheepfarmer, of Kaiapoi. w’as fined £6. PARENTS FINED The following were fined for failing to send their children to school: Mrs J. Bourgeois, £10: Mrs J. P McAlleer, £3: J Nicholls, £3; Clyde Wyse Smith, £1 10s. REMANDED After pleading not guilty. Kevin John Peter Duncan, aged 18, was remanded in custody to appear at Invercargill on August 21. on a charge of receiving a radio valued at £9 when he knew it to be dishonestly obtained on August 11. (Before Messrs J. R. Smith and E. J. Woolf, Justices of the Peace) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL William Leslie Campbell, aged 31, a painter and paperhanger, was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Christchurch on a charge of assaulting a female. Pamela Dawn Hillier, a police constable, on May 11. Campbell, who pleaded not guilty and eleeted trial by jury, was represented by Mr A. Hearn. Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary prosecuted. The charge arose out of a dispute over the use of a telephone box at the corner of Christian street and Aorangi road. Evidence given by Hillier that she had resigned from the police for health reasons.