MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 8

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND MAINTENANCE CASES Police and maintenance cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday were heard before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. Arnor Fagerholni, a seaman, aged 19. pleaded not guilty to assaulting James Albert Robins by striking him on the face with his fist. After Robins had given evidence the Magistrate entered a conviction. Accused was fined £2, in default 14 days* imprisonment. On a charge of fighting in Courtenay Place William Thomas Ronald Stevenson, aged 23, was fined £l, in default seven days’ imprisonment. For using indecent language, he was fined £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. Alfred Brickell, alias Bricknell, a driver aged 55, was convicted and ordered to’ come up for sentence within three months, if called upon, for being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient lawful means of support. A condition was imposed that he should go to the Salvation Army Home and take what work should be found for him. A remand to appear at Wanganui on December 19 wns granted to Charles Maxwell Copestnke, a motor driver, aged 28 who wns charged with failing to account for £1 Ss. 4d. received on terms requiring him to pay the money to the Maoriland Dairy Company, Wanganui. MAINTENANCE CASES Claud Clarence Hawthorne, who was charged with being £25 12s. 6d. in arrears on a maintenance order, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as 13s. 6d. is paid each week. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment was imposed on Arthur Morton, who was charged with being £56 6s. in arrears on an order for the maintenance of his three children, the warrant to be suspended so long as a weekly payment of £1 10s. is made. Joseph Ashton, junr., was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for being in arrears on an order for the support of a child. He is to be released on payment of the amount due, £3 3s. “I think you have behaved in a most callous manner,” said the Magistrate, in imposing a sentence of three, months imprisonment on lan Augustine Mackay, who was charged with being £27 12s. in arrears on an order for the support of his wife and three children. The warrant is to be suspended provided he pays £lO by next Monday and £3 2s. 6d. each week. For being £7 17s. 6d. in arrears on an order for his wife’s maintenance, Douglas Wilkins was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The warrant is to be suspended so long as he pays £1 ss. a week.

On a charge of being £69 in arrears for the support of his wife and three children, Henry William Barrow was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as £1 12s. 6d. a week is paid. Alfred Daniel Fisher was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for being £3 in arrears on an order for the support of a child. He is to be released on payment of the amount due. Francis Walter Godfrey was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for being in arrears on an order for his wife’s maintenance. He is to be released on payment of £5. A sentence of one month’s imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as £3 2s. 6d. a week is paid, was imposed on Cecil Goodall for being £8 2s. in arrears on an order for the support of his wife. Alfred Waller Maxell was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for being £2 in arrears on an order for the support of his child, and one month’s imprisonment for being £5 Is. in arrears for his wife's maintenance. In each case he is to be released on payment of the amounts owing. Frederick Robert Lane was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for being £9 3s. in arrears for his wife’s maintenance. The warrant is to be suspended so long as he pays £1 Is. a week.