LICENCE SUSPENDED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 14

LICENCE SUSPENDED

Intoxicated in Charge of Motor-car MAGISTRATE’S COURT Convicted on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car, Humphrey James Coulter, marine engineer, aged 22, was fined £8 and his licence was suspended for three months by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. Police evidence was to the effect that at 1.45 a.m. on July 4 a constable’s attention was attracted by a stationary car in Lambton Quay with its engine running. The constable spoke to defendant, who, he considered, was under the influence of liquor. Defendant admitted that he was the driver of the ear and that be had had some liquor earlier in tbc night. Dr. Bertram Wright said that after he had examined defendaut at the police station at 2.45 a.m. he cousidered he was under the influence of liquor and was unfit to drive a car.

Mr. J. A. Scott, who appeared for defendant, said Coulter had been to a dance at Kelburn and bad had a small amount of liquor. He had manoeuvred bis car in a somewhat difficult street, and had then gone to a taxi office in Lambton Quay, intending to leave his car there and'to leave a note for one of the taxidrivers who was a friend. “Song and Dance” Man “This man was giving a sort of ‘song and dance’ on the footpath in Cuba Street,” said Senior-Sergeant J. A. Dempsey, when Felix Mulligan, miner, aged 43, was charged with disorderly conduct while drunk. Pleading guilty, he was fined £l, in default seven days’ imprisonment Senior-Sergeant Dempsey said that about 1 p.m. on Thursday Mulligan was performing on the footpath, and the police persuaded him to go away. At 2.30p.m. he was again found in Cuba Street dancing about to the obstruction of persons passing by. He had frequently been before the court previously. Theft of Boots

Said by Detective-Sergeant L. B. Revell to have 50 previous convictions, some for theft, but most for drunkenness. Wil liam Anderson, bootmaker, aged 53, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each of two charges of stealing a pair of boots. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that on July 9 Anderson stole a pair of boots from Mr. Charles Reid’s shop, and on July 13 he stole a pair from outside the premises of Lindsay’s Ltd. He sold both pairs of boots to a dealer. Anderson pleaded that his trouble was drink. Licensing Offences John Owen Clay, licensee of the Western Park Hotel, was fined £lO and costs for selling liquor on a Sunday; and Joseph Hamilton. William Michael Scott, and Robert Wallace were each fined 20/and costs for being on licensed premises out of hours. Mr. G. A. Wylie, who appeared for the licensee, said that an offence had been committed only with regard to the man Scott. One man was on the premises as the landlord’s guest, and the other had gone in to telephone. The licensee had just returned from church, and was about to hold bis stocktaking, as was his custom after church on Sundays. Bertram Stewart was fined 20/- and costs for being on licensed premises, the Post Office Hotel, after closing hours. Ten men who were found by the police on licensed premises, the Royal Tiger Hotel, after hours, each fined 20/and costs. They were Patrick John Carmody, William Alfred Green, Walter Samuel Green, James Greer, William Heavey, John Joyce, Albert Jacob Patmore, Thomas Pridmore, John Rossiuo, and Philip Gordon Sutherland. In addition, Carmody was fined 20/- and costs for giving a false name and address, and W. S. Green was fined 20/- and costs on one charge of breach of prohibition order and convicted and discharged on a second. The licensee of the Royal Tiger Hotel, Vincent Boland, represented by Mr. G. A. Wylie, was fined £5 aud costs for selling liquor after hours, and the barman, John O’Leary, was fined £3 and costs for supplying liquor. Patrick Anthony Courtney, barman of the Clyde Quay Hotel, was fined £2 and costs on a charge of aiding the licensee to sell liquor after hours. Sold Airgun to Juvenile “Defendant sold an airgun to a 14-year-old boy, apparently without asking the necessary question of whether the boy was over 16,” said Senior-Sergeant J. Dempsey, when Henry Goldman, secondhand dealer, was charged with selling an airgun to a juvenile. "What explanation have you got, Mr. Goldman?” asked the magistrate. “I thought it was only a toy,” replied accused. “Don’t you know that it is an offence to sell an airgun to a boy of under 16? Well, it’s got to be impressed ou your mind. You will be fined 5/- without costs,” said the magistrate. Other Cases Admitting a charge of making a false statement to obtain benefit under the Unemployment Act. Frederick Anderson, single,-was fined £3 and costs.

On a charge of obtaining £3/3/6 from T. and W. Young by false pretence. Jack Pohl, carpenter, aged 22, was remanded until July 31.