MAGISTRATES COURT

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 11

MAGISTRATES COURT

$ Mr. E. Page,' S.M., dealt, with the police and summons cases in the Magistrate s Court on Friday. Convicted on the charge of using obscene language, Patrick McColl was fined £t>, m default fourteen days’ imprisonment. For drunkenness he .was convicted and. ordered to take out a prohibition order against himself for a period of one year. SUMMONS OASES. For being found on licensed promises after hours, John Steele was iiped £2. ' William Ormsby Fisher was fined £1 for a breach of his prohibition order. For selling milk not complying with the required standard, John Wood was fined £2. Pleading guilty to a similar offence. Agnes Olsen was convicted a><. ordered to pay Court costs mounting to 17s. 6d. Fashions, Ltd., were fined £lO for allowing two of their employees to do their work in other than a registered factory. Doing work for Fashions Ltd., in other than a registered factory, also resulted in May Bonnington and Barbara Grey being convicted and ordered to pay Court costs amounting to 7s. each. For employing waitresses in his cafe after 10.30 at night, Joseph Barnao. with two previous convictions recorded against him for similar offences, was fined £5. Benjamin Sutherland, manager of the Self Help Co-operative grocery stores, was fined £5 for failing to keep a wages and time book in the Courtenay Place shop. For falling to give notice of overtime worked by his employees, the defendant was fined £l. Francis Thomas Durran was fined £lO. in default one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, on the charge of trying to evade paying his fare from Wellington to Auckland while travelling on the Limited express. For failing to produce his railway ticket when requested to do bo by the collector. Durran was convicted and discharged.