MAGISTRATE'S COURT
A sentence of one month's gaol with hard labour was imposed on Daisy Wright aged 40, when she appeared in the Magistrate's Court today on a charge of being idle and disorderly. She had previously been charged on January 8 with a similar offence, stated Sub-Inspector E. T. C. Turner, and had on that occasion been ordered to come up for sentence if called on within three months. For her third offence of drunkenness the defendant was fined 10s, in default 48 hours. John Kerins, a labourer, was charged with having travelled by train from Paekakariki to Wellington yesterday without paying the fare and with his fifth statutory offence of drunkenness. He was given seven days' hard labour and ordered to pay the fare, 3s 3d.
On a charge of being idle and disorderly, Michael Charles Branton was convicte dand ordered to come up for sentence if called on within three months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 13
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154MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 13
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