MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 4

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons eases were dealt with in the Magistrate's Court to-day by Mr. E. Page, S.M.

John Wynn, aged 62, and James Francis Wiffan, aged 24, admitted having stowed away on the Port Hardy at • -Auckland. Scnior-Sergeunt Ward stated that both men said they were unemployed. They stowed away on the Port Hardy for the trip from Auckland to Wellington. Wynn had been before the Court on a number oE occasions, and Wiffau had received^two years' probation last, mouth for wilful damage. Each of the accused was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment.

On a charge of having employed a female assistant after 10.30 p.m., Barnao Bros, were fined £5. . '

William Thomas Hector Harris pleaded not guilty to having behaved in an offensive manner on Muritai road. Constable Squires, of Eastbourne, said he had received complaints'from two . ladies that the defendant had anuoyed them at the picture theatre, and afterwards, while they were walking along the road. -"You must .behave yourself better than this or you will be getting into serious trouble," warned the Magistrate. Harris was fined £1.

For failing to stamp a receipt, May Xeill was convicted and discharged.

A fine of 10s was imposed on Peter Razos for being the owner of a dog which attacked Sarah Park in Cuba street, whereby her limbs were endangered. "The defendant must take steps to see that this' doesn't recur," said Mr. Page to counsel appearing for Razos. ;

For selling two loaves of bread on a Sunday, Emma Vare was convicted and ordered to pay the costs, 10s. William James. Sargent, who sold some biscuits, was fined £1.

Chris Crane, who' sold cigarettes from a vending machine, was convicted and dis: charged. '. .-/..-. ■-■■■■ ■'.'. When returning home alcfhg Crawford road from a dance .early one morning recently, some girls were' seen by a constable to attenipf.to pull some palings off a. picket-fence. :. They could-'not do so, but another member of.the party, Ediv«ird Francis Cousins, showed them how to do it. The demonstration cost Cousins; who was charged with committing mischief, £1. Sehibr-Sergearit Ward stated., that considerable damage had- been . done to fences in this vicinity recently.