POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22363, 12 June 1936, Page 11

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, JUNE 12. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) OBJECTS TO POLICE STARES. Edward Farris pleaded not guilty t® a charge of procuring liquor while proBaxter said that on June 3, at 2.30 p.m., he saw Farris leaving the Empire Hotel. Farris said,he had been in the hotel to see the barman. The Magistrate told defendant that he bad no right to enter an hotel. Tb<* order was made on June 1, and tli® purpose of it was to prevent a person being placed in the way of temptationSergeant O’Shea described Farris a® “ one of the hoodlums ” of Dunedin. The Magistrate said defendant had not yet paid the amount involved in the original proceedings, and the time for payment would be extended for a fortnight. On the present charge a fin® of 10s and costs was imposed. ** Are the police allowed to stare me, pipe me off, and point ms out to their associates?” asked Farris. Ho had been walking along the street with a o-irl when a policeman had deliberately stared at him. That was some* thing he did not like. The Magistrate; And probably the police do not like to see you. If ® man’s reputation is such that the police have to keep an eye on him, the sooner he gets rid of that .reputation the better it is for him. ... , Defendant: I am not a criminal. I have no reputation. The Magistrate: Your actions of the past month do not show that. SUNDAY TRADING. Charged with selling goods on a Sunday, Margaret Greaney was fined I 0« and costs, CYCLING ON FOOTPATH. George Casey was fined 5s and costs for riding a cycle on the footpath. The Magistrate commented that several similar charges from Wilkie road had come before him, and if the practice did not cease the fines 'would be increased* UNLIGHTED MOTOR CYCLE. For riding an unlighted motor cycle,Edmund Charles Brown was fined IQs and costs. MOTORISTS’ BREACHES. William John Rutherford admitted passing a stationary tramcar at the intersection of the Main South road and Surrey street at a speed of 15 miles per hour. He was fined £2 10s and costs (3s). Cecil Janies Smith pleaded guilty ta a charge of negligent driving, thecas® arising out of an accident with a cyclist. He was fined £3 and costs. An order was made for the conviction to be endorsed on the license. UNLIGHTED CYCLES. Lawrence Gordon Ballot was _ fined 5s for riding a cycle without lights. Similarly charged, Ivan Burns and Leonard Sheridan Smith were each fined ss, with costs CHIMNEYS ON FIRE. For allowing chimneys to catch lira Robert C Miller, Herbert Alfred Wenbon, and Arthur Murray Sidey wer® fined 5s and costs.