MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., dealt with police cases at tho Magistrate^ Court to-day.
May Gibbons was convicted upon charges of drunkenness and breaking a cell window at the police station, and, in view of her previous bad record, was ordered to undergo a term of 'two years' reformative detention.
Frederick Joseph Nicholson was fined 103 for a e.econcl offence of drunkenness, the. alternative being fixed at 48 hours' imprisonment.
George Harrington Dench pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and stealing an - overcoat from a boardinghouse. He had wandered into tho boardinghouse and taken a lady's overcoat from tho hall, but was seen by a lady boarder, 1 who followed him into tho street, and took tho coat from him. Hi<> previous record was Had, and the Magistrate Kent him to gaol for a month on tho charge of theft. On the minor charge ho was ordered to pay a fino of 20a or to servo a week's impnsonmont.
(Proceeding.)
Dog fanciers have been liberally catered For at tho Dannevivkc A. ancl P.. Show on the 9th and 10th February. Entries close on Wednesday, 26th January, with the seoretary, Mr. H. 8. M. Quigley, at Gcrdon-street, Dannevirke.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 15, 18 January 1921, Page 8
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