MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

In the Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., William Wood Ballantyne, a labourer, aged 57 was fined 5s for drunkenness. Ernest Thomas Halloway, a labourer, aged 37, was convicted of a similar offence and discharged. James Martin, a tailor, aged 52, was convicted and discharged for drunken-

For his fourth offence of drunkenness, Walter Robert Page was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.

The Lower Hutt Borough Council last evening instructed the Town Clerk (Mr. B. S. Knox) to request the: pimcipal of the HUtt Valley High School (Mr. J. N. Millard) to instruct pupils of the school to use the sides of Woburn Road when cycling to ana from the school and thus leave the centre of the roadway clear for vehicles. The Mayor also suggested that other cyclists might note the request and do likewise. The engineer (Mr. R. F. Mainland) stated that the sides of the roadway had been laid down with finer metal, which would give a better surface for cycling over.

Messrs. E. Johnston and Co., auc ■ tioneers, will sell antique and ultramodern household furnishings at their mart, 8 Willeston Street, tomorrow, at 12.30 p.m. The steamer Matakana left Sydney at 6.30 a.m. today for Oamaru. She carries London air mail of January m for the Soutta ■3sised only.