MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 113, 5 February 1924, Page 5

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE CASES Police and maintenance cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday were dealt with by Mr. E, Page, S.M. A Maori named John Benben was remanded to appear next Monday on a charge of breaking and entering promises occupied by George Aparo at On-epu Hoad, Lyall Bay, and stealing goods to tlie value of -fl2 ss. 9d. On the application of Sergeant Scott, John William Colfer was remanded for one week on charges of being deemed to lie idle and disorderly, and. entering the Dominion as a prohibited immigrant. When Rex Bernard Dunne (represented by Mr. R. Egloy) came up for sentence on a charge of stealing the sum of .£5, the property of Donald Townshend, Mr. E. P. Mills, probation officer, recommended probation. The Magistrate admitted Dunno to 'two years’ probation conditional upon his taking out a prohibition order, proceeding to the work he has in the country, and making restitution for the amount stolen. ' John O’Brien, alias Edward Cotter, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. Sergeant Scott said the man had been found at 11.30 p.m, on Sunday on the premises of the Defence stores in the vicinity of the old Te Aro station, in Wakefield Street. He was m a drunken condition and had two bottles of methylated spirits in his possession. The man had stated that he had been sleeping out for some time. He had recently been .discharged after serving a term of imprisonment. 'I. plead guilty to drunkenness,” said prisoner, “but I don’t know anything about the other affair. . . . T have workrto go to. and if yon will give me a chance I will go straight." ' Ivelina Alice McCabe appeared on her second charge of drunkenness and was remanded for one week. MAINTENANCE CASES. It. William Campbell was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for disobeying a maintenance order, the warrant to be suspended so long as he pays 12s. 6d. per week and 2s. 6d. per week in reduction of his arrears, totalling 10s Alfred Wheal, whose arrears had been allowed to accrue to the sum of £ll, was sentenced te two months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as he nays 20s. per week, and ss. weekly off tlie arrears. Albert Walter Cooke, whose arrears totalled ilB, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as he pays .£2 10s. per week. Harold Frank Julian was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long ns he pays 412 weekly (the amount of tho order) ijnd 10s. per week in reduction of arrears amounting to 4121. Lavington McWilliams, who had allowed his maintenance arrears to total ,£ll 10s., was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, tho warrant to be suspended so long as he pays 4’3 14s. per week. Frank Ernest Clifford, whose arrears amounted to »£7 10s., was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the warrant Io be suspended so long ns ho pays .£3 10s. per week. James Murdoch Miller, who had allowed his maintenance payments to fall into arrears amounting to .£8 10s._ was sentenced to threo months’ imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended so long as lie pays .£2 per. week towards the support. of his wife and in reduction of the arrears, and provided lie pays 255. .weekly towards maintenance of his children and ss. per week off tlie arrears.