MAGISTRATE’S COURT
POLICE AND SUMMONS CASES
Mr. E. Page, S.M., dealt with the police and summons cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Jack Owen, aged 3s, was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment for stealing 9/in money, the property of Rene Cook, at Lower Hutt. Accused went into a music shop and asked Miss Cook if he could use the telephone. When her back was turned he took the money from her bag. For refusing to leave the Te Aro Hotel when requested to do so by the licensee on account of his being disorderly he was fined £l. in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. He was also convicted and ordered to make good the damage, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, on a charge of breaking a pane of glass valued at £3. the property of Thomas M. Brennan, the licensee of the hotel. Accused had recently been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for thef tat Nelson. James Ward was fined 10/-, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, for his second offence of drunkenness. On a charge of fighting in Vivian Street, John Johnston, aged 27, and Daniel Daly, aged 32, were each fined £l, in default three, days’ imprisonment. SUMMONS CASES.
For being found on licensed premises after hours, Percival Edward Carter was fined £2. Antoni Yianakis, of the Cafe de Paris, was fined £4 for employing a female assistant in the cafe after 10.30 p.m. For failing to close his shop at 6 p.m. F. W. Sang, trading as Y. Glowe, was fined £2. Defendant was convicted and discharged for failing to close his shop on the afternoon of one working day of the week. John David Mullhplland, for assaulting Robert S. Mackenzie by throwing a stone, was fined £3 and costs. James Pears was fined £1 for using an unlicensed radio set. Percy Love, for holding on to a tram from his bicycle, was convicted and ordered to pay costs, as he also was for using obscene language to the tram conductor who told him to desist from holding on. The costs amounted to £2/6/- in all. J. Jeanes was fined £2 for failing to record in his wages and overtime books the hours during which a worker was employed. 1 '
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 27
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371MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 27
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