MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1943, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Clifford - Horace • Scott, lorry-driver, 30 (Mr W. J.-'Stacey), has boen sentenced to seven days' hard labour by Mr.. 3. L. Stout,- S.M., for receiving a 281b box of stolen, primus valued at 18s. the property of'tho Wellington liar bour Board.'.. It was Hiated that the licensed was collecting prunes .from a wharf shed -for hia . employer, and he said, tint a box of prunes found in the cabin or. the truck had boon pit Iheru by a waterside worker a nil he had-'riot had'time to replace then: before iiie> wvr'u discovered. C'ouilsol said the accused hiid never been before the .Court before. William Anderson.' bootmaker. 00,. was . senteuced- to one month's hard labour for 'oi-a-Hint,' from servicemen in Cuba Street. He w:is seen to receive 5s from one man and Us from .mother, and' the police said he had. nrevlous convictions for that type of offence. Vivian Leslie- Flzelie, labourer, 29, who the police Mid was'-working up a very formidable list of convictions, was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour for using obscene iniißuaßC and was fined I*l Is for his third offence of drunkenness within'six months _ John Patrick Harrison, soldier, 25, was sentenced to three months' hard labour for 6te:illiiß'a wireless set valued at £.''. r >, and was eon vlcted and discharged fpr- stealing a wolf ba^ mid five clubs valued at El. The imprison •ncnt is to be cumulative with a sentence of three months now being served. The set was Mold to a man in a hotel for !:."> The accused said be was owed between £12 and t'ls by a woman.and tie had'taken the fronds'to llqulda!' the. debi He. had lost the irolf bas.-nnd clubsomeone ''■'> ' sto'.nn fliem frev Mm