MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

suled at the Magistrate's Court io-dav. A fust-offending '■ inebriate was fined Three first offenders for drunkenness, who appeared before Mr. K. D. Hanlon J. 1., at Mount Cook Police Court this morning, were fined amounts of their bail—lo,-i in, each case. Joseph Johnston, who made his sixth appearance for drunkenness, was committed to Kotoroa Island for twelve months. ' Three first offenders for drunkenness were- each fined lOs. John Harper Page pleaded guilty to six charges' of false pretences iuvoiviiv' an amount of £21 4s. Chief Detect ira Kemp explained that the accused, had new: sentenced twice previously on similar charges. The present charges reJatod to incidents which occmred prior to the other offence?. The .Magistrate imposed a sentence of five mouths' imprisonment, to be coucunvnt with t| lc term the accused it at present sci-vin-r herberl William Mason, a labourer, who was ennrged with being idle ;i,,d disorderly, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The Magistrate said ho would recommend that the , accused 'be tn,;:s(ciTcd to the Sow Plymouth Men's Home. For fighting in Tnranaki street John .Mac-kinder and Hector Ellis were e-ich lined £\±.