MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Cases in the Magistrate's Court today were dealt with by'.:Mr.'J.-..L.- :- ---stout, sm: '" ;.'■ .:/■; -^ : ■:■ '.-:■-■ ■'•;■ ■■. Fines of £.1 each, in, default seven days' imprisonment, were - imposed upon Charles Ross, aged 25, a showman, and John Terence Man-Warren Green, aged .22,. a showman, for. disorderly behaviour while drunk in. Lambton Quay early .this- niorriiiig., They pleaded guilty. For fighting with each other in Bond Street last evening, Trevor Ronald Nicholson, aged 24, a.- taxi-driver, and William McCr^ad3r, aged 23, atakidriver, were each fined, £1, in default 48 hours' ..imprisonment., :? For^ using obscene language McCready • was fined £2, in-default fourteen days' imprisonment;. Pleas "of; guilty .were entered, to- aUfctiar^..:..-. : --:;-;./ : -^/I--..;r.;:;;^^:?ti; ■■=". : The wilful breaking of a pane of glass in a telephone cabinet in Boulcott Street was admitted .; by', Alfred Hpllis, aged 23, a labourer, and he was' ordered to make good the damage, '7s. The police said he was under the influence of liquor at: the time. - • " ■ ■' ■',■'■ ; •■'- ,;' •'•'• :•■-.'

Kenneth William Cpmpton, aged 23, a soldier, pleaded guilty to wilfully breaking an orange jar valued at £4 10s, the property of P. Bares.' Sergeant Saunders said that Compton pushed the jar off the- counter' of a milk bar last night. He was ordered to make good the damage. • ( v

A sentence of six -months' imprison-, ment with hard labour was imposed upon John William Graves, aged 35. a labourer; who pleaded guilty to a charge of wilful and obscene, exposure. Graves said he was discharged from "VVi Tako prison yesterday morning and he remembered nothing after visiting a city hotel. The police said he had previous convictions^ . ■>:".-. A remand until next Friday was granted,'in the case of Donald Kirkland, aged 30, a steward, who is charged with .unlawfully converting to his own use a car valued at £140, the property of L. J. Thomas, and with having been in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car in Oriental Parade. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. i ■ ' -