MAGISTRATE’S COURT
POLICE CASES. Messrs. Longmore and Staples, J.P.’s, dealt with the police cases in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Frank Hunt, aged 59, for ins filth offence of drunkenness, Was fined £l, in default seven days’ imprisonment. John Poland, was/convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined £1 in default fourteen days’ imprisonment for resisting Constable W. M. Jones during the lawful execution of his duty. For damaging a pair of trousers valued at £l/13/-, the property of the New Zealand Government, he was convicted and ordered to make good the damage in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. Thomas Crossley and John Flannagan were each fined 10/-, in default fortyeight hours’ imprisonment, for second offences of drunkenness. Another second offending inebriate, James Flynn, was convicted and discharged.
For being found in a state of helpless drunkenness Harold Sequard Bergh was convicted and ordered to pay £l/5/-, prison maintenance on his own application he was committed to the Roto Roa Inebriates Island for six months.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 28
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163MAGISTRATE’S COURT Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 28
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