MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 88, 13 April 1923, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., presided at the ] Magistrate's Court to-day, when police and summons cases were heard. William Anderson, making his fifth appearance for insobriety, was' committed to Rotoroa for twelve months. A maintenance order for 30s per week was made against Alfred Hoy, in favour of his wife and child. The alleged theft of a pair of boot 6, valued at £1 6s 6d, the property of James Martin, resulted in the appearance of an elderly man named Samuel M'Shane. The defence set up by Mr. J. S. Hanna was that the defendant was waiting in the shop for his little girl, who intended purchasing a pair of shoeß. In the meantime M'Shane passed the time away by examining boots with a view to purchasing a pair for himself, and when he took the pair in question towards the door so that he could see them in the light, he was accosted by Mr. Martin, junr., and charged with ■theft. The defendant ran away because .he was frightened that he would get into a scrape similar to one he was connected with on St. Patrick's Day. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said that there was a doubt, of which the accused could have.the benefit. On two charges of selling liquor in a no-license area, Edward Francis Haley; of Lyall Bay, was convicted and ordered to pay the costs. Sub-Inspector Cummings said that the offences were more or less of a technical nature. Charged with being found after hours on the licensed premises of the Masonic Hotel, George David Lundon, William Morecraft, and Henry Oliff were each fined 40s. and costs. A young man named Henry Stephen Gradwell, who was recently convicted on charges of burglary, was remanded until Wednesday on a charge of obtaining four motor tires from David Cecil Armstrong by false pretences. Lawrence Leonard Watson, who had thrown a stone and broken a /window of the Garrison Hall, was fined 5s ana* ordered to meet the damage. Fines of 20s and costs were imposed in the cases of Amy Aptedl, bookeeller; Thomas Hitchcox, furniture dealer, and Rose Hamilton, bookseller, charged with failing to close their shops at 9 o'clock. For employing a female after 9.30 p.m.. Albert Palmer was fined 20b and COBtS. i L. and J. W. Blake, Ltd., were fined 20s and costs on each of three charges of employing a female under the age of sixteen years without her having a certificate of competency."