MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 137, 6 December 1912, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.. at the Magistrate's Court this morning, Sarah Falloon was sent to, gaol for. one month for importuning. For a similar offence, Elizabeth Musgrove was fined £2. Lilian Jukes and James Canning were each fined 10s for insobriety.' In addition a prohibition order was made out against Jukes for one year. Henry Riley, Henry M'Entegart, and Joseph Murray, who stowed away on. the R.M.S. Aorangi, from Papeete to Wellington, were fined £5, with the option of going to gaol for one month. Maurice Brown- was • fined' 10ft fojf drunkenness, and convicted of assaulting James Canning. He was ordered to pay one guinea medical expenses. J. Ferguson, who solicited express hire on Lambton station, was fined 10s, with costs 10s. For a similar offence committed on Thorndon station he -was nned in the same amount, with costs 9s. Percy Box for riding a cycle at night without a light affixed was fined 10s. William Nidd, who permittpd two female employees to work more than 58 hours in a week without paying them overtime, was fined 10s, with costs 7s. A. H. Cock for failing to keep a wages and overtime book was fined £1, with costs 7si For non-compliance with ■ a drainage notioe, Walter Brown was fined 20s, with costs 7s. For interrupting parade's,' the following youths were fined 10s, • with Court costs (7s) : — Joseph Roberts ■ Nicholson, Walter George Bedford, James Peter Walker, Albert Edward R-ankin, and Francis Douglas Bell. In the case of John Douglas Shearer, similarly charged, the fine was ttlade ss. For failing to render personal service, the following were ordered to pay Court costs (7s) :—: — Clifford Hayes, Hugh A. Collins. Charles G. Lamberg, Ernest S. Smith, and Francis Joseph Ashworth. The last named was in addition fined ss. William Robert O'Leary was fined ss^ without costs, for the same offence. S. and W. Mackay were ordered to pay Court cost's (7s) on a charge of failing to keep a. wages and overtime book. Kate Jew was convicted and discharged for failing to keep a wages and overtime bpok. At the Petone Police Court this morning, before Messrs. Wakeham and Coles, J.P.s, two first-offenders for committing a breach of the peace were each fined ss, with 7s costs. The alternative was fixed at forty-eight hours' imprisonment. One first-offending inebriate was convicted and discharged.