UPPER HUTT COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 6

UPPER HUTT COURT

Cases in the Upper Hutt Court yesterday were dealt with by" Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M. • On charges of not having a motor-driver's licence James Laing, Murray Speirs, Keith Watson, Edward Thompson, and Harry Thomas Franklyn were convicted and fined 10s. Charles Overend -was charged' with operating at Te Maru an over-weighted motor-vehicle. On the firet charge, as to which the vehicle and load were found to bo 1 ton llcwt 161b over the 6% ton limit, Overend was convicted and fined £3, and on the second charge, concerning which it was shown that the vehicle was Bcwt 41b over the Wx ton limit the defendant was convicted and fined £1. For having a vehicle and load in excess of the 6Vi ton limit by llcwt 2qrs 121b, Samuel Brown was convicted and fined £2. George Maxwell was charged with having a vehicle and load in excess of the maximum allowed, the vehicle being 12cwt 2qrs overweight. He was convicted and fined £2. For leaving no head or tail lights on a motor-vehicle, Edward Bcavis was convicted and fined £1. Michael Bland was convicted and fined 10s for driving a motor-vehicle which did not have the required lights. The Woburn Carrying Company was charged with operating a heavy motor vehicle before first obtainins a heavy traffic licence, and was convicted and fined £1. John Kelman was charged with failing to keep as far to the left of the centre line of tho highway at Kaitoke as was practicable, and was convicted and fined 10s. William Robert Kcmball was charged with driving a motor-vehicle at a speed and in a manner dangerous to the public. Mr. J. E. Ainswortb, tho trafiio inspector for the Main Highways Board, said the defendant went front Camp Road to Upper Hutt at a speed of from forty-five to fortyeight miles per hour, and through the town ■at from twenty-five to thirty miles nn hour; Kemball was convicted and fined £2. Iwo defendants were each fined 10s for not having licences for wireless sets, and another w^s-convicted and ordered-to pay costs. William John Barber pleaded guilty_ to two charges of procuring a firearm with-, out a permit, a charge of delivering a firearm to a person without a permit, and a charge of being in posseieion of an unregistered firearm. He was convicted and fined 10s on one of the charges of procuring a firearm without a permit, and convicted and discharged on the other three Arthur Victor Geange pleaded guilty to a charge of delivering ponemion of a firearm to a person without » permit, and was convioted and fined 10«. Ernert Joseph Whitaker and William Herbert Thomas Loveridge were convicted and fined 10b on the same charge. On a charge of procuring a firearm without a permit Loveridge was convicted and fined 10s. For procuring a firearm.without a permit Francis. Joseph Southee was convicted and fined 10s, and for delivering possession of a firearm to a person without a permit he was convicted and discharged. All the firearms in the above cases were confiscated. , . . , William Charles Eout was charged with negligently driving1 a motor-car on the Main Road, Trentham. Senior-Sergeant C. E. Roach said that about 7.15 p.m. on July 15 the defendant was proceeding in a motor-car along Main Road, Trentham, and a lady companion was at the wheel under his supervision. At the intersection with the Moonshine Road the Rev. G V. Kendrick waited to give Routs car the right-of-way, and when Rout took the wheel he hit the back of the vicar's car, both cars being damaged. Mr. Kendrick did not a«k for damages, and Rout was convicted and fined £1. ■ Horace Bernard Turvey was charged with driving a motor-cycle on Main Road, Trentham, at a speed and m a manner which might be dangerous to the public. Turvey, who pleaded guilty, collided with a cyclist named Spackman at an intersection and Spackman had hi» collarbone broken, and suffered from shock. The defendant was convicted and fined 10s._ William Joseph Spackmnn, charged with riding a push bicycle without lights, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. Patrick Prendergaet was charged with the theft of & zinc bath and a galvanised iron dustbin, the property of Thomas McNabb. „,.„. , , Harold James Williams, a land agent, said he had charge of the house of Mr. T McNabb. On his first visit to the housa he saw the bath and tho dustbin, and on another visit to the house tho articles in question were not there. Ho informed ths police of the matter. Constable C. Goss said he called at Prendergast's house on July 2. Mrs. Preudergast at first denied knowledge of tho missing articles, but then took him into the house, and showed him the bath in one of the rooms. Prendergast showed the constable the dustbin in the fowlrun, and said his son had found it in a paddock adjoining McUabb'e house. Prendergast in his evidence said his soft had found both articles in the paddock, which was used a« a dumping ground, and he was takiDg caro of tho articles until someone called for them. Tho charge was. dismissed. Mr. Stewart Hardy appeared for the defendant, and Senior-Sergeant C. E. Roach prosecuted. ' Alexander Spence Hepburn pleaded guilty to the theft of a push bicycle valued Mr. F. J« Foot, who appeared for the defendant, eaid that the bicycle was apparently taken from outside an hotel after a drunken frolic. Hepburn could not rida a bicycle at the time, and his wife caw two men come along with the bicycle, so Hepburn must have been double-banked. Ho had neglected to return tha bicyclo. The Magistrate said that tho offence may have been perpetrated while Hepburn was in a state of intoxication, but the long period for which ho retained the bicycle could not be overlooked. Hepburn was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within bix months. He was ordered to make restitution of the £6.

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