MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

, POLICE ANB BY-LAWS. Mr. f. V. Frazer, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. A' remand for a week was granled in the case of Marl ha Courlnay, charged with the Ihel'l: of .£'">, (ho properly of Patrick Joseph O'Callnghan. Bail' was allowed in .(.'.lO and one surely of Jt;10 or two of ..C2r> each. For insobriety I'nnr first offenders were each lined lis., in default tweiily-fniir hours' imprisonment. For poinmilting a breach of his prohibition order Koury Whitburn .was fined 20s. and costs, and given a week in which to pay the amount.. Three men u'ere convicted of entering (he Pier llolel- at 7 a.m.. with the object of obtaining lir|'m>r. When accosted by a policeman they were quite frank about Hit" matter. They were each lined i'Os. anil costs. William Chapman was, charged with driviiiff his vehicle on the Knit Road without lights. According to tho police statement (he man was under (he inlluence of liquor, and owing to the absence, of light on (he vehicle a motor-car collided with it. He wa's fined J;2 and 255. co;ts. A youth named Sydney Allen was convicted of riding his motor-cycle in T.ambton Quay at a greater speed than fifteen miles per hour," and was lined Ids. and costs 7s. Charles Carburry was fined Ifls. and ensfs for allowing his motor-car to remain unattended in Manners Street. Henry Jlcywood was fined 20s. nnd costs for driving a motor-'lorry past a standing trnmcar. John Walker, a youth, employed by the Government, was convicted of riding a motor-cycle without lights in Riddiford Street, and was fined as. and costs. For allowing slock (o wander, Robert Adams was ordered to pay Court costs 75., and Patrick Donoghuo'was fined 10s. and costs.