CHILD OF TEN SENT FOR LIQUOR

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 26

CHILD OF TEN SENT FOR LIQUOR

Parent’s Direction MAGISTRATE’S COURT CASES “It seems a very peculiar attitude on the part of a parent to send a child of ten to an hotel for liquor,” said Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., when Alfred Francis Christmas appeared before him in the Magistrate’s Court, Welling'on, yesterday. Christpias was charged with, on April 24, sending Alfred Christmas, his young son. to the Cambridge Hotel for liquor. The police were stated to have found the boy waiting inside the bar to be served. Defendant, a seaman, said he had sent the boy to the bottle store, not the bar. He was convicted and fined £2/10/- and costs. Remands and Adjournments. Defendant having met with an accident and broken his leg. Senior-Ser-geant J. Dempsey asked for eight weeks’ remand in the case of Cecil Edward Taylor, charged with using obscene language in King Street on March 28. An adjournment until May 29 was granted in the cases of Stanislaus John

Whiteford, licensee of the Regent Hotel, charged with permitting drunkenness and with supplying liquor to an intoxicated person; Robert James Smith, barman at the Regent, charged with supplying liquor to an intoxicated person; and. Frederick W. Russell, charged with aiding and abetting an offence. An application that Dubha Rama should be bound over to give sureties of the peace, on the grounds that he had sent a letter containing insulting and provoking language to Chhibha Paucha, fruiterer, ano was likely to do so again, was adjourned for a week. Stated to be awaiting sentence in the Supreme Court on other charges. Thomas Barbour, alias White, aged 55, labourer, was remanded until Wednesday on charges of using indecent language, in Lambton Quay on April 29, and stealing two footwarmers, worth 25/-, from Thomas Charles Felton. Dangerous Dog. Charged with being the owner of a dangerous dog. which on April 8 attacked Vera Coy in Rintoul Street, Bernard Prince was yesterday convicted and ordered to pay costs. A charge of keeping ii n unregistered dog was withdrawn, as defendant was stated to have given the dog away, but it had returned. It was stated that the dog had been sent away from Wellington. Other Cases. For making false statements so as to obtain benefit under the Unemployment Act, Harold Joseph Baker, was fined £2 and costs, and Charles Alfred Gray was fined £2/10/- on each of two charges, and was ordered to pay costs. For casting offensive matter, William Dickson and Clifford Joseph Moore were fined £1 and costs each.