MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

To-day's sitting of . the Magistrate's Court was presided o-ver by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. . ■ . 1 A second offender for drunkenness, Jean Taylor, aged 50, was convicted and discharged. Charged with the theEfc of £4 from James Edward Hope, Frederick Arthur Mitchell, agec\ 1V&, was reman i ded;to.2nd July. He is to remain in the custody of the :Child. Welfare Officer .pending the hearing of the .case. - A remand to Wednesday, was granted in the case' of Ng Soong,' aged- 30,, who was charged with ■ indecently assaulting a child, aged 0. ":''■' Hcarstell Thompson, aged 38, .was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for the theft of two pairs of. boots, valued at £2 ss, from the doorway of J. Martin's shop. ..' ■'■•''-. i .' . One first-offending inebriate, who didinot appear, was fined the amount of his. bail, 10S. • '. . ■,'■■■ '"' "' :'■',- ':.._).■:■ '. Two youths appeared•'at the Lower Hutt Police Court this, morning,, charged with the theft of a quantity of chocolate and soft drinks from a shop in Cuba street, Lower Hutt; also with the theft, of knives and screwdrivers from' an adjoining shop. They were further charged with'converting a motor-car and a motor-cycle to their own use, and also with damaging a window. On the first charge they were convicted and ordered to come up £oi" sentence when called upon. They were alsoplaced under the' Welfare Officer, and their movements at nights restricted. They-. ■ were, ordered to make good the damage done and articles stolen. On the other charges they were convicted and discharged. ■ " ( '