MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons cases in the Magistrate's Court to-day were dealt with by Mr. E. Page, S.M. The obtaining of £6 Is id in cash and goods worth 3s Bd, by means of a valueless cheque, was admitted by Ronald Gordon Allan, a middle-aged man, who described himself as a company manager, His excuso was that he had expected to pay some money to meet the cheque info the bank the next morning, but that the deal in which he expected to make it had not come off. Acting-Chief Detective Holmes stated, however, that tho accused had no account. A fine of £5 was imposed, in default one month's imprisonment. Allan was also ordered to make restitution. Leonard Alfred Diamond, Arthur Matthew Brown, and Percy Kandall were each fined £3 for delivering possession of rifles without first having obtained a permit, nn offence which resulted in John Alfred Robinson being convicted and discharged. Brown was fined a further £1 for procuring a rifle without a permit. A remand to appear at Timaru next Thursday was granted in the case of Harry Newell, alias Ashford, a seaman,' aged 45, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of having atolen a bicycle worth £10, the property of George Benjamin Lamboru. Erecting wireless sets without having first obtained a license cost Benjamin Shaw Cook £3. William Henry Martin,' Jack Roy, and Arthur Hudson Williamson were each fined £2 for a similar offence. A remand to appear next Thursday was granted in tho case of John Stanley Millar, a canvasser, aged 20, who admitted having failed to account for sums of money' totalling £2 2s Gd to Mrs. Annie Keay, by whom he wa3 employed. The Probation Officer (Mr. T. P_. Mills) is tq make a report. For travelling on the railway with a weekly ticket that had expired, and with the intent to evade payment, John Cyril Levy, of Paremata, was convicted and ordered to pay the costs.