MAGISTRATES’ COURT

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 60, 4 December 1937, Page 8

MAGISTRATES’ COURT

Wellington Cases

Failure to pay. instalments of his unemployment levy cost James Johnston Gordon £7/10/- and costs yesterday when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, before Mr. J. G. D. Hewitt, S.M. It wa* stated by the unemployment officer that there were two charges against. Gordon, the first of not paying his November. 1934. levy, and the second his August, 1936, levy. The total amount owing by him was £5/10/-. His explanation was that he had been out of work part of the time and had not been able to pay. On the first charge he was fined £6 10/- and costs, and on the second £l. _ For netting- off fireworks in Willis Street on November 5, Donald Stewart and John Geary were eneh fined £1 and costs. Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey said that Geary and Stewart were throwing strings of crackers into the street from a car. Pleading guilty to charges of Sunday trading, Claire Mary Munro, George Henry Drake, John Francis Davis and Gerald Viatos were each fined 10/- and costs. For being on licensed premises after hours, Henry Nathaniel Davis, George Hobson, William Musson, Douglas Henry Neilson, James Dunean Tiffin, Leonard Carpenter, Sidney Oakley and John Kenny were each fined £1 and costs. For his second offence of drunkenness, George Calvini was fined 10/-, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and for the same offence, Silas Hicks Palmer was fined £2. in default seven days’ imprisonment. A deserter from the Port Fremantle, William Boss, able seaman, was fined £5 and costs. Charged with being other than the licensee and supplying liquor, James Edmund Hall, hotel porter employed at Barrelt’ts Hotel, was lined £2/10/- and costs.