UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 14

UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES

YOUNG MAN BEFORE THE COURT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, November 1. “In making his escape from the Nurses’ Home he jumped on to a glass roof and damaged both the roof self” said Chief Detective Carroll, vhen Egerto'n Shelley Walter Hanbury Eeigh Hunt, a young man educated at Mistmmster, England, was charged in tho Magistrate’s Court with being , fully on the premises of the Nurses Home, Christchurch, on Sunday night. “He calne to New Zealand to learn farming, but he has discovered that farming is not his natural bent, said Mr. Bowie, who appeared for the defendant. “He is therefore returning to England. Before going back he thought he would like a bit of a spree with his friends, and he was drinking freely. He was m a cantankerous mood. He was not there at the invitation of anyone. The nurses had nothing to do with it.’ The Magistrate convicted and discharged defendant and ordered him to pay £3 10s. damages, in default seven days hard labour.