MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 53, 25 November 1922, Page 12

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES i Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.MJ dealt with police and summons case's in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. On a charge of being found drunk while in charge of a vehicle, Patrick Callaghan, was remanded until this morning. ' Insobriety and wilfully damaging two doors of a house in Taranaki Street, the property of Florence Onnorod, were admitted by a middle-aged man named Patrick O’Kane. The Magistrate imposed a fine of ss. on the first charge, and gave accused a week in which to make good' the damage (£6). “If you don’t you will get fourteen days,’ he added. . “Discharged from gaol in June last, this man has done no work since” stated Sub-Inspector Cummings, with reference to a young, man,' William Gordon, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being an idle and disorderly, person. “Three months’ imprisonment,” directed His Worship. , SUMMONS CASES. George Dennis, who had used threatening behaviour towards the caretaker of Newtown was fined £1 and-, costs. '■ . It was explained in the case of Stephen George Eagle, who was charged with exposing for sale adulterated milk, that the deficiency in fat was not due to any tampering, but to the fact that the cows had not been properly stripped. A fine of £1 was imposed. . Margaret McHugh was fined 10s. and costs for a breach of her prohibition ordey.