BYLAW AND DEFENCE CASES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 83, 5 October 1922, Page 11

BYLAW AND DEFENCE CASES

Mr. P. K. Hunt, S.M., presided, at yesterday afternoon's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. For allowing a chimney to be on. fire, Minnie Reggs was fined 6s and "osts. Charles Patrick M'Carthy, co^ee with obstructing a train conductor, was fined £3 and costs. , .

On charges of. failing to notify the change of ownership of a motor-cycle Horace ErU Victor Boocock and fidwin Bunney Were ordered to pay costs.

Wdjig She, whose premises were described as being liable. to harbour rats, was ordered to pay costs. For falling to register doss, fines were imposed on owners as follow :—James Fearoa 10s and costs, Percy Harris, Daniel B. Tonkins, and Te Vera, Tv Kino costs 7e.

John Stewnrt and Lawrence Driscoll each fined £2 and costs and Seplinluj? Knight 10s and costs for allowing stock to wander. James Saunders was charged with, giving a faJse name to a tram conductor, and was fined £1 and costs. •'"

Arthur Alexander Smith, ch&rged with refusing to pay a special tram tart was fined £1 and costs.

Failure to attend military parades resulted in the following penalties: Ralph Hymiin 7s (costs only), Albert William Martin 10s, "Wi'Sm Charles Smart 10s, and Henry Tainm £1.

Fines were imposed on motorists and other offenders against the city bylaws as follow:—No light on bicycle, John Thompson 10s and , costs ; driving 'at excessive speed, Jules Omer and John Malfroy. £1 and cestjsf leaving car unattended,- Leonard Mills 10s and costs; driving taotor'cars without head of taillight attached, John Adam Gotts alld Martih M'lntytfe, each £l and costs; driving at ah excessive speed, Charles Franklin Webstef, £1 and SostS.