MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 122, 17 February 1919, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

. Mr. P. V. Prazer, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's.' Court on Saturday: '' Convicted of drunkenness for the third time, Maud Grant was fined 205., in default - seventy-two hours' imprisonment, and a prohibition order was issued against her! Florence Grace Ward, who was before the Court some lime ago on a charge of theft, and who was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, certain conditions being imposed upon tier, was brought before the Court because she had broken her prohibition order, and had failed to report regularly to the Salvation Army. The woman was given the option of going to an inebriates' home or being.sentenced to reformative treatment. She refused, to'go to Pakatoa, and was therefore sentenced to two years' reformative treatment.

I William Strange King, a returned solj diei; was charged with assaulting a taxidriver/and also "tvith'using obscene lanI guage. The defendant, for whom ill'. j )?. W., Jackson appeared, pleaded not guilty. !- The facts of the case were that the i defendant hired a taxi' near the Central | Hotel to be driver, ib the Thorndon rail. | way station. On arrival at the station there was an altercation as regards tho I Aire, and it was' alleged that the defend- : aut assaulted the taxi-driver, and used i bad language. Several witnesses were | oullscl on both.sides, those for. the dcI fendant stating that there was no actual ! assault, although the two men got out jof the taxi, for an encounter.- It was also olaimed that no bad language was used. The Magistrate held that the evidence showed that there had been an assault, and the defendant said more than lie itnended to say in his excitement. The language, however, was incidental to the 'assault. The defendant was fined 40s. i and costs 12s. for 'committing the assault, i and was convicted and discharged on tho other offence.