MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 156, 31 December 1923, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M:, presided at the Magistrate's Court ■ to-day i •■"" x Three first offenders for* drunkenness, who did not appear, were:.bordered to forfeit the amounts of their bail, 10s in each case. ... A remand for one week was granted in the case of Christopher 'Flaniia'gan, charged with drunkenness and - commie-" ting a breach of his prohibition'order. For drunkenness and'casting-^offensive , ■matter on the footpath;"an elderly rian named James Campbell was.a.dtnpnithed by the Bench and convicted and d«charged. ':'.'". ...T. .'"-.!'"-'.'.""''"•"."•..• For being drunk, whilst, in, charge of » horse, and cart, Lour Alphonse August* St. Eomain was fined. £2: Herbert John Morley was-fined £1, in default fortyjeight'-hours', imprisonment, for drunkenness, „and was con-' victed and ordered to come lip'for sentence when called upon within >'six' months on .a charge of committing »~ grossly indecent-act. [ An ex-member of the^crew of: the V barque Forest Home, William Wilson, admitted, that he had been drinking heavily for the past ;four;n}onths, «nd was sentenced to fourteen days'~imprii-. onnwnt.on a charge of, drunkenness, hu sixth offence. Accused was convicted and discharged for committing a breach of his prohibition order. A middle-aged man named Frederick' William Stokes, who wa* arrested by Sergeant Sivyeron a charge of stealing three plates valued at'6s, the"properiy of Phillip Low, of; the Trocadeiw Hotel, was convicted and ordered T» ■ come lip for sentence when called upon, a condition being that" the accused takV out a prohibition, order against himself. Henry Knox was further" remanded until 7th instant on a charge of stealing a bicycle, valued at £5, at Lower Hutt. . - ' . •:' '

Before Mr. W. A. Worth, J.P., at the Mount, Cook Police : Cuort this morning, John Hannah, for a second o2ence of drunkenness within six months, was fined' 10s. "