MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. 0. H, Orr-Walker, S.M., dealt with police and maintenance cases at the Magistrate's Court tUis morning. Seven first offenders for drunkenness were each fined 10s, and for a similar offence, Alfred John Johanson was fined £1.: Martin Samuelson was convicted and discharged, and for committing a breach of his prohibition order was fined £5, in default 21 days' imprisonment; Jeannie Turpin wk3 fined £1, in default three days' imprisonment, and a prohibition order was issued against her; and George Handham was fined £2. Arthur Hunt Henry Stevenson appeared foi^ sentence on the charge of obtaining £33 10s by means of false pretences. Chiof-Detective Kemp stated that since the accused appeared before tho Court on Friday it had been ascertained that another charge of a similar nature was pending, and to investigate that ho would ask for a week's remand. Accused was accordingly remanded. He is to be kept in custody: Roy William Spencer pleaded guilty to the theft of an Australian Terrier pup valued at £5, from Robert William Charles Upton, and was fined £5, in default fourteen days'" imprisonment. I Denis William Quill answered to four charges of theft of clothing and a charge of the theft of a' pair of shoes of a total value of £3 12s 6d. The police stated that the articles had been taken from shop-fronts while the accused had been intoxicated. Quill was remanded for a week pending an application being made , for his entry to Pakatoa Home.

My. R. D. Hanlon, J.P., presided at a. sitting of the Mount Cook "Police Court this jiorning. One -first offender for drunkenness was fined 5s Or 24 hours' imprisonment. A second offender, A. Sauiiders, was fined 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment. Another second offender, L. A. Hoft, was fined 10s, with the siltenv.itive of spending 24 hours in gaol William Wood, a fourth offender, was lined '£5, or 14 days' imprisonment-.'