MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 17

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES ■ Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with the police cases in (the Magistrate’s Court yester-. day. Richard William. Ashton, aged 28, for resisting Constable.De Young during the execution of his duty, and Robert Derbyshire, aged 29, who incited Ashton to resist arrest, were each sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment. When Ashton was being arrested for, drunkenness, Derbyshire told him to give the constable a “go for it.” Both accused had previous convictions. Ashton was fined 10s„ in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, for bis second offence of drunkenness. James Size, alias Ryan, was fined £3, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, for his fifth offence of drunkenness SUMMONS CASES. Bessie Lodge was convicted and discharged for throwing a piece of concrete in Haining Street. Defendant, who lives with a Chinaman in the street mentioned, said she threw the concrete at th 6 door of a house where she thought he was marking a pakapoo ticket. - ... F. R. N. Meadows and Co. were fined £5 for selling butter short of the quantity represented. Mr. .A. Mazengarb, who appeared for the defendants, said that the company, on finding that a very slight decrease in weight was being given in some lib. packages of butter, had purchased anothef cutting machine, costing £l2O. ..Some packages weighed under 11b., some over, and the defendants, in order to give satisfaction, had bought the new machine. It had been purely an accidental occurrence, and it would not happen again. Saying that he thought there seemed to have been a certain amount of laxity in the weighing of the butter, the Magistrate inflicted the fine mentioned. E. A. Pay was fined £5 and Gilbert Gillespie Watson £1 for failing to obtain radio licenses for their wireless sets. Neil Macfarlane and Alfred Coulter were each fined £2 for being found on licensed premises after hours. . The Magistrate said that unless Frederick George Van Slyke, who was charged with stealing £2 12s. 6d.' from the Wellington Rowing Club, turned up at Court next Friday, he would issue a warrant for his arrest. The Chief Detective stated that the defendant, who was on summons, had posted the money i to the Rowing Club, and it had just been received. Defendant, who was in Palmerston North, had, it seemed, treated the matter as a civil --affair. Remarking .that he could not deal with a case of the sort in the absence of an accused person, the Magistrate adjourned the case till Friday next. Chief Detective Lopdell told the Court that accused had. gone to a camping party with members of the Rowing Club and expenses were incurred. The money was given to accused, who had been asked to pay the expenses for the club, but he had not done so. A charge of selling liquor, after hours, which was preferred against Robert Fairweather, licensee of Barrett’s Hotel, was dismissed. Horace Mitchell, a porter, employed at the hotel, was fined £5 for supplying liquor after hours. For being found unlawfully in the Forrester’s Arms Hotel after hours, Victor George Bennett and James Allen Tripp were each fined £l. For a like offence David Ritchie was fined 10s.