MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Police and summons cases in the Magis« trate's Court today were dealt with bf Mr. E. Page, S.M. " ■"■ Mary Parker was fined £1 .for Sunday trading. Fines of £l?each were imposed upon .Robert Ferguson and Henry; Graham for having been found on licensed premises after hours. On a similar charge John Weir was convicted and ordered to pay costs. . For supplying liquor at an unlawful time Lucy Ann Oldridge, wife of the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, was fined £3 Frank Slade, barman at the Pier Hotel, was fined £2 for supplying liquor after hours. A fine of £1 was imposed upon William McL'ellan for making a false statement,for' the purpose of obtaining employment. Arthur Hector Hobbs was fined £1 for delivering a firearm to a person without a permit. For procuring a firearm without a pemit, Edward Alexander Friend was convicted; and ordered to pay costs. For selling oil of eucalyptus that did not comply ,with the standard, -, Oswald M. Smith was convicted and ordeerd to pay costs. ' It was submitted by Mr. 0. C. Mazengarb that Smith was an entirely innocent party, having purchased the eucalyptus from a Dunedin firm which in turn imported it in bulk from Melbourne. On hearing of the complaint the Dunedin firm had withdrawn every bottle of eucalyptus issued by it this year, for testing purposes. It was found that the contents of one particular drum, sent' from Melbourne were defective. Found one night committing the offence of writing a notice on the kerbstone in Vivian; Street, ■< William Alexander George Lockhart was convicted and ordered to pay costs. Detective-Sergeant Eevell said that Lockhart was a member of the local Communist party and knew very well that h* should not" write notices on the footpath. On a charge of using obscene language, Harold Begss, aged 29, a salesman, was fined 10s. He was convicted and ordered' to pay costs for wilfully breaking a pane of glass valuedl at .£lO, the property of Thomas Coltman, . and was ordered, to make good the damage. ; , A plea of guilty was entered by Raymond James, Lynch, aged 24, a clerk, to ■ ii charge of stealing £10, the property of the Xew Zealand Government, and he wag admitted to probation for one year. De-tective-Sergeant L. Revell said that Lynch,, who was employed in the office of the Porirua Mental Hospital, was short itt his cash when it was checked. His explanation was that as he' required money he arranged a loan. The loan was not forthcoming immediately, and in the meantime he took the cash, intending to repay it when he received the loan. Restitution had been made. Lynch repeated his explanation to the Court.