POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22033, 20 May 1935, Page 11

POLICE COURT

MONDAY, MAY 20. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) FURTHER REMAND GRANTED. Joseph Sutherland was charged with being found unlawfully by night On the premises of the New Zealand Highways Constructors Ltd. at Logan Park. Detective-sergeant Doyle said he would have to ask for a further remand until Friday. There were other charges to be investigated; and there was also another man to be charged. The Accused: I would like the Chief Detective to speak up. I never* heard what he said. Mr Doyle repeated what he had said, and the accused said he objected to the remand. The police bad had him locked up over the week-end, and he could clear the whole lot up to Mr Doyle’s satisfaction. The remand was granted until Friday next, bail being allowed as before in the accused’s own recognisance of £23 and one surely of £25. ' DRUNKENNESS. The case of-a female first offender, who was found drunk in Maclaggan street on Saturday evening, was adjourned for a month. The magistrate intimated. that he would not enter a conviction if her behaviour in that period was satisfactory. MAINTENANCE CASES. John Saunders was charged with disobedience of a maintenance order, the arrears under which were assessed at £33 8s 6cl to April 19. Saunders, who was represented by Mr C. J. L. White, applied for a variation of the order.—Mr White said that the arrears were not admitted, this being one of those cases in which the maintenance was always paid through a solicitor’s office. Some fresh notice had been arranged between the parties, but no notice of this appeared on the court records. He had paid in what he had been able to do, and though he had no independent check, he reckoned the arrears to March 26 were £l3 Is 9d, and that he owed about .£l7 at the present time. Defendant stated that he was in arrears with his board to the extent of about £2O. He had not gone to camp because he had had an offer of a position in town.—The magistrate adjourned the case for three weeks, and in.the event of defendant not obtaining other work in the meantime. he would be expected to go to a relief camp. William Tate (Mr R. H. Simpson! was charged with the disobedience of a maintenance order, the arrears to April 22 being assessed at £ll 11s.—In evidence the defendant said that he had lost his temporary employment about nine weeks ago, and had since made efforts to secure work, in which he was hampered by a back complaint. —After further evidence the magistrate sentenced Tate to three months’ imprisonment, to be suspended so long as he went to a relief camp or took such other employment as was approved of by the maintenance officer.