MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 19

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Cases in the Magistrate's Court today were dealt with by Mr. J. Miller, S.M.

Bail in the sum of £150 with a surety of a like amount was granted to Lee Fong, aged 47, a gardener, who was further remanded until next Wednesday on a ehargeof assaulting Carl Mafeking Hertz so as to cause him actual bodily harm.

A further remand until November 7 was granted in the case of Reginald Howan, aged 37, a labourer, who is charged with obtaining £379 10s from E. N. Sutherland by false pretences. Bail was renewed. Albert Edward Way, aged 46, a canvasser, was remanded until October 30 on a charge of obtaining credit to the extent of £91 lls 9d from Royds Bros, and King, Ltd., without informing them that ho was an undischarged bankrupt. Bail was granted in the cum of £75 with one surety of £75. John Farnah, aged 40, a greaser on the Monowai, who did not appear, was fined £3, the amount of his bail, for assaulting Rose Rattray. Half the fine is to go to her. . , . A sentence of two months imprisonment, to be served concurrently with a shorter term she is already serving, was imposed upon Olive Muriel Goodwin, aged 34, a married woman, who pleaded guilty to' a charge of obtaining from H. J. Eatwell, at Carterton, goods valued at £1 lls lid and £4 15s in money by a valueless cheque. Detective-Sergeant T. Y. Hall said that the woman had been in trouble before. Mr. J. Meltzer appealed for leniency on her behalf. A like charge against George Goodwin, aged 35, a station manager, was withdrawn.