MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

;Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., presided at thje Magistrate's Court-to-day. ;Psthcr Collier, charged with beingl an idle and disorderly person and with having- .used obscene language, and Arabella Swanson, charged with being idle and disorderly and with having supplied Collier with liquor well knowing that sho was a. prohibited person, were placed in the dock together. The pair were given a.'-very shady reputation by the police, who had repeatedly warned the women. Collier, whoso record was not altogether biid, as the Magistrate considered that her husband had been responsible for much of' her trouble, was, on her own application, committed to the Pakatoa Inebriates' Homo for twelve months on the first charge, and was convicted and discharged on the second. Swanson was sent to gaol to serve a month's hard labour on the first charge preferred against her, and was convicted and discharged on the second. Throe first-offending1 inebriates were given the option of fines of 5s or going to gaol for twenty-four hours, and apother, a soldier, was convicted and discharged. . . In explanation of a charge of having behaved in a threatening manner in Lambton-guay, Frederick Gordon' Potter said that a soldier had addressed him in particularly abusive terms and the trouble had then started. Mr. Frazer said that apparently the matter was merely a drunken row, and ordered Potter to pay a fine of 10s or to go to gaol for forty-ei<*hi

hours. , _ Grace Richardson was fined £1 and 7a costs, in default, 72 hours in gaol, for having broken her prohibition order. tEric Ludlow and Josoph Maher, who were found on licensed premises after hours, were each ordered to pay fines of £1 and -7s costs, or to go to gaol for 72 hours. William Collins was convicted on a charge of having travelled from Trentham to Lambton Station on race day without a ticket, and was fined 255, which was reckoned as a. reasonable taxi fare for the run, together with 15s 6d costs and witnesses' expenses. A young woman named Grace- Nielsen pleaded guilty to a chaj-ge of having stolen a ring, valued at £16, and » small mantel clock, the property of a Mrs. Blako. She- was admitted to probation for ■ period of three years. (Proceeding.)