PETONE COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 31

PETONE COURT

Cases in the Petone Court yesterday were dealt with by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M.

For failing to carry a warrant of fitness Frank Lawrence Phillips was fined 10s and costs.

Albert Owen was fined £2 and costs for exceeding 25 m.p.h. with his heavy motor vehicle.

Frank Arthur Bezzant pleaded guilty to failing to close his shop, at which smoking requisites were sold, at 6 p.m. Mr. F. W. Ashby, inspector of awards, said that Mr. Bezzant had a shop divided into two compartments on the Hutt Road. This subdividing of shops was in order provided the occupier did not sell goods from one section in the other one after hours. In July he was convicted of selling groceries after hours in the other section of the shop. A fine of £2 was imposed.

Arthur Allan Dillon was charged with failing to close a shop on one working day during the week at 1 p.m.

Mr. Ashby stated that Mr. Dillon, who was a hairdresser and tobacconist, chose Wednesday as his half-holiday. He closed at 1 pjn., but at 6.55 p.m. he was cutting a customer's hair and he sold cigarettes to another customer. It was necessary for a shop to remain closed for the whole of the half-day.

A fine of 10s and costs was imposed,

Raymond Clifford Kembair pleaded guilty to riding a motor-cycle at Point Howard at a speed which was dangerous to the public.

Senior-Sergeant H. C. D. Wade said that on November 3 the police received a message that there had been a serious accident at Point Howard. The defendant, with a young lady as pillion rider, was riding his motor-cycle at such a speed that he was unable to take the corner. He skidded 82 feet, some of the distance being along the pipe line. They both had to go to hospital and the young lady was still there.

A fine of 30s and costs was imposed. Edward Valentine Shramka was charged with committing theft of a dinghy valued at £8 10s, the property of George Robert Phillips.

Mr. T. P. McCarthy' said that this case concerned the alleged theft of a boat which was washed up on the Petone beach. It was difficult to know now who really owned the boat and during the past few times it had changed hands it had been sold for £3. He suggested that this sum be paid to the police for them to ascertain the owner.

The charge was dismissed and the condition was imposed that £3 be paid to the police. Bernard Wilson Saywell was fined 30s and costs for driving a motor-car in Randwick Road without due care and attention.