MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1917, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

To-day's: sitting of the ' Magistrate's Court was presided over by Mr. L. G. Reid; S.M. Still another appearance was made by Annie Maud Sales, who readily admitted having over-indulged. She\was fined 20s, with the alternative of serving seven days' imprisonment. Another consistent offender in the person of Annabella Swanson was similarly dealt with. John Marshall Savidge, who was charged with being helplessly drunk in Rintoul-street, was remanded .for three: days for medical treatment. John Graham, who admitted one previous, conviction for drunkenness, was penalised in, the sum of 10s, with the option of serving three days in gaol.. The voting woman, Hilda Koberstein, \who was before the Supreme. Court this week on, a charge of concealing the birth of. a'child, and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called, upon on condition that she entered the Salvation Army Home, made another appearance,. She was charged on this occasion' with escaping from the home. On .the application of the police tho accused was ordered to appear before the Supreme Court to-morrow for. 1 sentence; ". A remand till . Wednesday next, was granted in the case of John M'Carthy, charged Avith theft of a quantity of E.P. ware, the property of a person or .persons unknown. ■'"■ :'.''-. For depositing fish offal on the beach on the esplanade, Island Bay, David Mason was fined 20s, with costs.

Prank, Boyle, who drove a motor-car in Tinakori-road in a manner dangerous to 'tfle"-.'public,.', was mulct in. a -penalty of 20s ;i with costs, . . . . ;.

/. Other minor cases were dealt with as under:—William. Hitch and Jonathan Charles. Wilkinson, .breaches of the ttutt-road traffic bylaws', each fined; 10s, with costs j,, Clarence. „jV'loore,. failing: to sound bell or" horn on_ his bicycle, fined 20s, with costs; Con. Beaver, insufficient lights'on a vehicle, fined IDs; with costs ; and Charles TJownes and Thomas Hay ward, each ordered to pay costs; Patrick "Murphy, driving a motor-car at an excessive speed, fined 20s with costs. . .'.'■ ,". , ■"""' ■' ■■.■■•'..■'

Particularly, filthy language wap; made use of by Mrs. Smith in Holland-streets and the Magistrate imposed a penalty of £3, with the< alternative of 21 days' imprisonment. . . '. On a charge of drivjng a motor-car over a. railway crossing when a jtrain_ was aipproaching within half a mile, John Pouglas Panninter ,was finedl with costs. '-■:',' '.. . . ■;.

For allowing stock to wander, James Arthur Connor was fined 10s. with costs.

William Alexander Morris admitted leaving^ a quantity of timber, in Derwentstreet.at night without' having a light fixed,and was fined 10s with ,7s. costs. For having insufficient lights on a. vehicle in his charge Thomas Welsh was mulct in a penalty of ss, with costs.