MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 5, 30 September 1922, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE CASES. Three men with previous convictions for drunkenness appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Robert Galloway Simpson was fined £l, in default three days’ imprisonment, and made the subject of a prohibition order; Daniel Murphy was fined a similar amount, with the option of three days in gaol; and in the case of Henry Warren Lewis a fine of 10s. was inflicted, the alternative being fixed at. forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. On charges of being idle and disorderly persons -in that they were possessed of insufficient lawful means of support, Stewart Arthur Melville and John Marshall were remanded until this morning. “I* don’t think anything would he gained by sending him to gaol, although this sort of thing must not be encouraged.” said the Magistrate, in reference to a young man named Cecil Percy Perrett Hendrickson, who had pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of having stowed away at Southampton on the liner Paparoa, now in port. Accusedl was convicted and ordered to come up for Rcntenoe when colled! upon. ' “Not guilty” was the plea of » young man, Robert Bruce McKinlay, who appeared on a charge of stealing a four-wheeled van. valued nt £l7 10s., the property of William George Fitchett. He was remanded until October 4, bail (£5O) being allowed. Failure to notify the change of ownership of a firearm led to Alfred Monk being fined 40s. and costs. Samuel Prestidgc, the owner of a firearm, was fined 10s. for omitting to advise - the police of his change of address.

“On review of the data available to us relating to the City Council’s milk service, the league affirms that its previous criticism of the business side of this important undertaking has been shown by what has since transpired to have been substantially correct. Our opinion throughout has been that the best service to the city could only be secured by placing the* business on a thoroughly sound financial and administrative basis. The policy of public control of the "city’s milk supply in the interests of the health and welfare of citizens the league has always affirmed, and supported. Tho league now desiiiies to heartily congratulate the City Council and especially its Milk Committee, on tho great wtoffli: done in putting into operation such public control as is giving the citi.zcns.the cleanest, healthiest, and best supply of milk the city has* ever had. We are gratified at the improvement shown in the general management and administration of the service, and whilst respectfully urging the need for continuous care on the financial side, the league records its high appreciation of tho measure of success now attained. We assure the Milk Committee of our support in their determination to have a perfect system of municipal milk Supply for the citv, and in their effort to defeat those who are now trying to wreck the scheme for their personal benefit.”