MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 19, 22 January 1921, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court this morning. '• • ' • . Edgar Philip Richards was fined 10s for a second offence of drunkenness. _ John de Lacey Crowley was convicted on charges of drunkenness and breaking, his prohibition order, and was ordered to pay fines amounting to £3. " ' ;'. George Dixon was fined £2 for having used obscene-language in a public'place. Thomas John Patrick Higgms was fined £5 f6r a similar offence. . ■ ' A young man, John Leslie: Mimel Young, who had' stupidly, removed a friend's hat from, a house he had been visiting, and had delayed returning it, was charged .with theft, 1 but the. information'was dismissed on condition that .the exxpenses,- a matter of 20s, aro paid. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hunt lined a taxi-driver, Gerrard Corvissiano, 40s and costs for having used insulting language to an official at -the Thorndon Railway Station. ..■■'. . . ,: .; : For failing to attend Territorial parades, Ernest E. Mace-Humphries and R. C. H'Arthur. were each fined £1, Herbert. H. Jessep,:4os, and A.. E. Ma3on, who had been several times previously convicted, £5. Each defendant was also ordered to pay'7s costs.. . .'. , . ;' .-