MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1922, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

' Mr. F. 'K. Hunt, S.M., presided at to-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court.

. Florence Grace Ward, on charges of drunkenness and breaking the terms of her prohibition order, was sent to Pakatoa for a period of twelve months.

John Walter Hamilton, on each of two charges-of theft of a box of candles and a horse's bridle, was. sent, to gaol for three months, the terms to be concurrent.

For drunkenness, George Routledge was convicted and discharged. On a further charge of being an incorrigible rogue, in that he was found begging alms in Oustomhouse-quay^he was sent to gaol for three months. -■■}.

Walter Smith was fined 40s for committing an indecent act, and 5s for drunkenness.

A youth named Leo Reginald Dennis (for whom Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson appeared) pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of the sum of £5 10s, the property of Andrew Brown. Mr. Stevenson asked for probation, as Dennis was only nineteen years of age. The Magistrate admitted Dennis to probation for two years on strict terms. Charles Puddick and Herbert Dunham, charged with the theft of a Ford motor-car valued at £265, the property of James Benge, were remanded until sth April. «

Before Mr: F. K. Hunt, S.M.. yesterday afternoon, A. J. George was fined 40s and costs for passing a stationary tram in his motor-car. For exceeding the •speed limit he was convicted and discharged. Ballinger Bros, were ordered to pay costs on a charge of attaching, a water pipe to a main without the consent of the City Council.