MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons cases were dealt with at the Magistrate's Court today by Miv E: Page, S.M. A plea of guilty was entered by Mr. J. Willis on behalf of Horace Randall Bishop, who was charged with receiving a quilt, sheets, and towels when he knew j that they had been dishonestly obtained. , Detective-Sergeant Revell Raid that on February 9 Detective Smith visited the accused's home and discovered the articles mentioned in the charge. They were branded with the New Zealand Shipping Company's mark. The accused said they had been given to him by a. man from one of the'ships, but the police had been unable to locate him. The Magistrate imposed a sentence of two months' imprisonment. ~';■' Having recently been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for false pretences,] and three months' imprisonment for stealing bicycles, William Granville Stevens pleaded guilty to a further charge of stealing a bicycle. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that on February 28 the accused stole a bicycle in Grey Street, and rode it to Waikanae. There 'he. made representations to woman that he wished to go to the South Island to, see his wife, who was ill. He said that he had no money. The -woman gave him 27p, and the accused gave the bicycle as security. The Magistrate imposed a sentence of three months' imprisonment, to be served concurrently with his present, sentences. Fines of £1 ml each case were imposed on John Joseph Bryant and John Matthew Carnley, who were charged respectively, with delivering and procuring possession of a .32 rifle without a permit; The minimum fine of £5 was imposed on Keith Kenwood, who pleaded guilty to a charge of being found in pursuit of swan on Lake Wairarapa without a licence. Caleb Richardson, Arthur Geoffrey, lan Gordon Hart, and Archibald Cornelius were each -fined £1 for having unlicensed radio sets. IJichard Basil Lydford was fined 10s for committing a nuisance in Cuba Street. Nancy Kitchjng, a domestic, aged ,21, who pleaded guilty to n charge of stealing articles valued at £18 12s, the property of' Agnes I. James and another, was convicted and ordered to comn up for sentence within three years if called upon. A condition, of the sentence was that the accused should remain at the Salvation Army Home. Patrick De Laney, who refused to- take his foot off a tram seat when requested to do so by the conductor, and later became involved in an argument, was fined £2 for assaulting the conductor and ordered to pay the costs, amounting to £3 7s, on a charge of using obscene language. j

Polio is claimed by his owner, Mr. W. Bowen, of Hendon, London, to •be the world's most highly trained parrot. Polio will uncork a bottle, following which he will drink from a wine glass. He can also drink through straw, hang up his stocking, put the clock back, place pennies in his money box, talk through a toy telephone, sit up to tea, and eat from a spoon and return it. Polio lives in a cage of silver and scarlet, which he opens hknself.