POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 10

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY. MAY 17, (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) SALE OP CIGARETTES. Reserved judgment was given in the charge against J. A. Hunter (Mr C. L. Calvert) of keeping open after 6.15 p.m. a shop in which smoking requisites were sold. The magistrate found it proved or admitted that the shop was open and a sale was made by defendant’s sou of a packet of cigarettes to Robert Fisher. The conditions under which exemption had been granted had not been observed, and defendant would be convicted and fined 10s and costs. MOTORING BREACHES. Alma Erina Hoad was fined 40s and costs for dangerous driving. For exceeding a speed of 20 miles an hour with his lorry Alfred Randal Hucklebridge was fined 10s and costs. A charge of being an unlicensed motor cyclist against Kenneth Russell Morris was dismissed. ; Eric Duncan Sergison was fined 40s and costs for operating an unregistered motor vehicle. George Lewis Brooks was fined 40s and costs for operating an unlicensed trade motor vehicle. Thomas Carruth and Francis Michael Crosbio were fined 20s and costs and 30s and costs respectively for driving heavy motor vehicles at excessive speeds'. Henry George Anderson Barnes and William Grant Taylor were fined 8s and costs and 10s and costs respectively for driving unlighted motor cars. Charged with riding unlighted motor cycles, Stanley Charles Robertson was fined 5s and costs and Frederick William Eggers 15s and costs. Being unlicensed drivers of motor vehicles, Charles Stuart Henderson and Harold Dickenson Roach were fined 10s and costs and 5s and costs respectively. William B. Kincaid was fined 10s and costs for leaving a car unattended in Princes street. Henry Johnson Turnbull (Mr E. _J. Anderson) was charged with operating a motor lorry without a heavy traffic license. The charge was dismissed, subject to payment of court costs. WANDERING CATTLE. Charged with permitting cattle to wander unattended on the Main x - oad at Kilmog Hill, Thomas Herbert Hammond was-fined 8s and costs. A similar charge was preferred against Janet Stevenson (Otokia), who was fined 20s and costs. UNLICENSED RADIOS. For operating unlicensed radio sets Robert Russell was fined 25s and costs and Allan Lang 5s and costs. UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES. Frederick Clarke and Claude Simmons were each fined 10s and costs for being found unlawfully on licensed premises after hours. Further evidence was heard in ,a “similar charge against Thomas James Harris (Mr W. M'Alevey), who was fined 20s and costs (30s). SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT, Charged with failing to allow an employee a half-holiday, T. E. Sagar and Co. (Mr A. G. Neill) pleaded not guiltv. The Inspector of Factories outlined the position of a young woinan, employed by the defendant company, who was not given a weekly half-holiday as required by the Shops and Offices Act. To Mr Neill: Defendant had been in business 20 years, and he had never previously been brought before the court in connection with labour matI tors. Evidence was given by the employee in question. Mr Neill said that the evidence showed that the employee did not work any longer than 48 hours a week. The only question to be considered was the technical breach of her being called upoxr to work for two hours on the evening of her half-holiday, while to offset that she was given two hours off two days later. “ The breach is not a sen’ous one,” said the magistrate; in dismissing the charge, subject to the payment of court costs and a witness’s expenses.