MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons cases at' the Mag* trate's Court to-day were dealt with E| Mr. 'E. Page, S.M.. ■ j Charged with having forged a Poem Office Savings Bank withdrawal receipt tiff Auckland, James Ross Morris, a fanv hand, aged 21, was remanded to appeal at Auckland on !Hk July. _ \ Failure to re-license their radio set; ' cost Walter Francis Coleman and Rober Raine £3 each. A similar offence result ed in William Henry Solomon being finec £2. For refusing to leave the Central Hotd when requested to do so by the licensee John James Spring, a steward, aged 29 was fined £2, in default seven days' im( prisonment. He was convicted and disi charged for drunkenness. William Collins, aged 67, appeared fo*" sentence on a charge of being idle an<|| disorderly, with insufficient lawful meaoC of support. Sub-Inspector Lander sai<j| 1 that the accused was before the Court o» the charge on 2nd June, and was con* victed and ordered to come up for seri| tence, if called upon, on condition that ha remained at the Ohiro Ilome. He hatf since left the home and had been sleeping! out. A sentence of three months' impris?! onment was imposed. Robert James Lochore, a labourer, age( 33, appeared for sentence on a charge o; obtaining £3 at Gisborne by means of i false pretence. Chief-Dct-ective Ward salt that the offence was committed in Man 1927. Since his arrest . the accused ha« ( made restitution of the £3.. A conviction was entered, and the accused was ordered to come up for sentence, if called upon within twelve months. Walter Eay Brown was fined £2 ftj entering the Foresters' Arms Hotel attq hours without lawful excuse.

Accommodations aboard the British di^| isiblo RIOO on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic will cost passengers at least £1000 a head. The company, which plans to operate the KIOO ou a regular Trans! Atlantic passenger service, hopes ererf txially to reduce the tariff to £200 o* £100 a passenger. The saving in fuel an^ maintenance costs is expected to place tljg dirigible service on a par with pfcegvahM tSerydcq in cost of pperfttion, , '