MAGISTRATE’S COURT
POLICE AND MAINTENANCE CASES. Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., dealt with the police and maintenance eases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Maurice Welsh, who made his fourth appearance on a charge of insobriety, was fined £l, in default three days imprisonment; and David Taylor, for drunkenness and procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition ordgr. was fined 15s. Charged with defaulting in the payment of maintenance to his wife, William Hagen was remanded to appear at Auckland' to-morrow. Bail was fixed at £5O. “The escort will arrive sometime this week, and I ask for a. remand until the 26th,” said Chief-Detective Kemp, with reference to a middle-aged man, Alfred King by name, who is alleged to have failed to support his illegitimate children in New South Wales. The remand was granted, and bail renewed in the sum of £3QO. A powerfully-built man named Harry McNeill, who denied charges of insobriety, resisting the police,- and damaging a pair of trousers valued at £2 55., was convicted on each account, fined £4 10s., and prohibited from obtaining liquor.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 156, 20 March 1923, Page 11
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179MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 156, 20 March 1923, Page 11
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