MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1927, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

-Police and summons cases fn the Magistrate's Court to-day were dealt with by Mr. E. Page, B.M.

The : theft of timber worth £2, the property of the New Zealand Sawmillers' Agency Co.,- Ltd., was admitted by John Lindeman Grant, a young carrier. It was stated that the accused drove into the timber, yard and loaded his lorry, /saying,'.' when questioned, that he had" been instructed to get the timber by a person at Karori. Mr. S. Joll, who appeared for Grant, asked for leniency. The offence, ho said, had been committed while the-accused was partly under tho influence of liquor. Grant was fined £10, in dofault two months' imprisonment. He was allowed oiio week in which; to find the money. • Discharged from gaol only six weeks ago, after having served a 1 sentence of twelve months' imprisonment for being a rogue and a. vagabond, John, Joseph Buckley, a labourer, aged 40, admitted that he was an incorrigible rogue. "He is .hopeless," said Sub-Inspector Harvey. ".MHe. won't work, "and a term may do 'him good." The ■ Magistrate imp'bseS. a sentence of twelve months', imprisonment. Buckley was convicted and .discharged for. drunkenness. .. -. '.■-' ';' '„ - ■ ■ .' :

Kathleen Donovan admitted having wilfully broken a pane of glass. The Sub-Inspector stated that .the dofendant went into the shop of Ah Lim, in Tory;-; street, and demanded liquor. Her request was refused, .-whereupon she put her foot through a-sheet of glass. A.'fine-.of. £1* was imposed, and Donovan was' also ordered to make good the damage done. . '■; Kenneth Bo well and William Alfred Green, labourers, both 19 years of age, admitted having stowed away'" on tlio Katoa at Auckland. They were each fined £3,. in default fourteen days' imprisonment. ■-••'"'' t Two breaches of his prohibition order were admitted - by. William Kelly. He was fined 10s on one charge, and on the other was ordered to pay -t the costs. Herbert Michael Inksteiv.'who also committed a breach of his order was fined '£1. ..; '

For being unlawfully on licensed premises after hours, Michael Francis Blake was fined £2 and. costs. "'

Fighting in the street cost Archibald West 10s.

One first offender for drunkenness, who spent the night in the cells, was convicted and discharged, and two others were" fined ss, half the amount of their bail. ...■'■