POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 20635, 7 November 1930, Page 7

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) PROHIBITED DRIVER PINED. •• If a man is prohibited from driving and he drives a motor car, ho ex-, cuso can bo put before the court to justify his offence..” said the Magistrate when Daniel Craig Miller Andrews (Mr L. 11. Simpson) pleaded guilty to being an unlicensed motor driver. Sergeant Hall said that a constable had seen tho accused, who was' prohibited by the Supreme Court fromdriving for three years, driving his motor car on one. occasion, and a. city traffic inspector had seen him driving the car on another occasion. ' “ This man was very foolish/* said Mr Simpson, in admitting that the defendant had been prohibited from'driving for three years. The car was the property of his wife, and he had been using it to go to work at Whare ‘Flat. A friend had driven it usually, but on the occasions referred to the friend had not been present. Tho defendant was fined £lO and costs. ■ . I DRUNKENNESS. “ I’ve got some good points as'well as bad ones/’ said a first offender- for drunkenness in a rich brogue. Sergeant Hall stated that defendant had been drinking methylated spirits, and had to bo discharged' from the Shiva*-on Army Shelter. He was remanded for a week for medical treatment. MOTORISTS CHARGED. A fine of £5 and costs was imposed upon Jesse Bcnfoll, who was charged with failing to keep to the left of the centre lino while driving a motor car. Margaret Julia Sinclair was fined 20s and costs for being an ; unlicensed motor driver. '

Fines of 5s and costs'were‘imposed on the following motorists charged with being in charge of unlightcd motor vehicles at night:—Arthur Aimers, Leonard William Paul Butterfield (fined 5s in respect of each of two charges). Arthur Spurgeon Bond, Arthur William Hill, Samuel Knarston, George Martin Laudrebe, Louise Boueant Logan, and John Mitchell Paterson.

Joseph William Henderson was charged with being an unlicensed motor driver, and also with having a motor cycle without an adequate silencer. On the first charge he was fined ss. and costs. The second, charge was adjom’ned for a week. ■ An unattended motor car cost David Gourley Mowat 10s and costs. Similarly charged, Annie Elizabeth Stevenson and John Stone were also fined IDs and costs.

“Jt is fortunate that they are charged with nothing more than being unlicensed drivers,” stated the'Magistrate as ho lined Maurice William Sparrow and Norman Spence Traynor 2Us and costs.—Sergeant Hall said that the defendants were, youths employed by a. firm in Roslyn, and during the lunch hour, while their employer was away, they went for a joy ride in a client’s car. They had had an accident, the car being somewhat'knocked about. UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES. William Leo was charged on two counts of being on licensed' premises while prohibited.—He was fined 20s and costs on tho first charge and ,40s and costs on tho second. Charged with being - on licensed premises while prohibited, William Gibson was finded 20s and costs. SUNDAY TRADING; Charged with Sunday' trading, Peter White was fined 10s and costs. CHIMNEY FIRES. Fines of 10s and costs_ were imposed on Tlmnias Reid Christie and Henry Brabant respectively on charges of suffering their chimneys to catch lire. DRUNK IN CHARGE OF HORSE. Norman Sutherland pleaded guilty to being drunk while in charge of a horse and to procuring liquor while ho was prohibited. Sergeant Hall said_ that the defendant was seen lying in tho gutter opposite All .Saints’ Church. Tho horse was stanc.mg by, being looked after apparently by a crowd of small boys. The defendant had evidently' fallen olf. The defendant said he had now sold his horses.. - “ It is fortunate for the horses that you have sold them,” commented tho Magistrate On the first charge Sutherland was fined 40s and costs, and on the other charge 10s and costs. LICENSING BREACH. Ernest Albert O’Malley, for whom Mr Neill appeared, pleaded guilty to sending liquor to a No-licenso district (Tahakopa) without notice. Sergeant Hall, who prosecuted, stated that the defendant was tho

licensee of tho White House Hotel, Henley. On .October 13 a resident of Tahakopa purchased somo liquor from him. and, with the exception that there was no immediate .notice given to the authorities at T?alclutha, all tho requirements- were complied with. The reason given for tfye'omission was, that tho defendant had given the notice to a' traveller, to post, and the .traveller had hot done so at once, carrying it for some time in his pocket. The post mark on the letter bore out what had been stated.

Mr Neill said the police had no doubt that this had occurred, and in view of'tho circumstances he suggested that the charge should bo 'withdrawn. The .defendant had been three years at Henley,' and had previously been' sending out liquor without any complaints being levelled against him. He had done all that was humanly- possible to comply with' the regulations. His Worship remarked that the sending of liquor in this way should be ■notified in accordance with the , Act However, lie could not look upon tho present case as other than a technical breach. Tho defendant would be con vicled and ordered to pay court costs . SHOPKEEPER CHARGED The Inspector of Factories iMr Grandison) proceeded against Bichard John Penrose, who was charged with making a default in payment of wages. Mr Grandison said that the case concerned a youth who, after tho expiry of tho first year’s service, did not receive an annual' increment of 5s a week. Tho minimum wage,in the first place was 10s a week, and this had to bo increased annually by 5s a week until 30s a week was reached. He, thought that Mr Penrose_ had acted without ■snowing the position. Tho case was adjourned for a fortnight to enable the inspector and the defendant; to go, into tho matter further. RETURN OP INCOME.

For failing to furnish a return of his income Thomas William Turner was fined 40s, with court costs 10s, and Crown solicitor’s fee £3 3s.