MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1931, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. T.-B. M'NeiT, S3IJ, presided over a sitting of tiie Magistrate's Court to-day. • ■ Charles Thomas' Batkin,, a labourer, aged 40, and HaloM Geori;e"Waiiaiu Stevenson, a mechanic and cook,vaged 40, were each sentenced .to three months' imprisQumeut on charges of being id^a'and disorderly, iwith insufficient law&J means of support. Detective Tricklebank said that the. accused had done no work for three months, and had been touring around tbc Wellington clistrict in motor-cars. A remand until, sth June was granted in the vise of Maxwell Stewart Mitchell, a, salesman, aged 21, who was charged with incurring. credit -to the extent of £17 17s from.the Stewart Hardware Co., Ltd., by fraud. ■ Bail was fixed at £50, with one surety of £50, a condition being that the accused should report twice weekly to the police. ...... Police and summons . eases were dealt iwith at the Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr. E.. Page, S.M. . James Crawford, a- moulder,. aged' 83, who was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, with, insufficient lawful means of support, was' convicted arid ordered to come, up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. Sub-Inspec-tor Lopdell stated that arrangements had been made for the Salvation Army- to take care of him. ' ' ..." A ■ fine of £5, in default one month's impcisonmenb, was imposed on Edgar Colin Nankivell for stealing a stretcher,' bed, and a kettle, valued at 2os, the property of Mary Greenfield. ' Duncan Stewart Eeid, who is awaiting extradition at Colombia on 'a ■ charge oftheft as an agent, was further remanded until-sth June. • ...