POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 2

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. (Before Mr 11. W. Bundle, S.M.) A HOPELESS CASE. “ This seems to bo a hopeless case,” said the Magistrate in respect of Lyall Cochrane M’Lachlan, who was charged with obtaining £2O from the Employment Promotion Branch of the New Zealand Government by false pretence, the case having been adjourned from October 29. Chief-detective T. Holmes said that M'Lachlan, who had been ordered to pay a weekly sum, had got in arrears, and ho was still in very straitened circumstances. He was unfit for hard work. The accused was convicted and discharged. MOTORISTS DEALT WITH. Arthur Douglas Bayly was charged with driving a motor cycle at a speed of over 30 miles an hour and with passing a stationary tram, the first charge being adjourned for three months, defendant to attend any classes required by the chief traffic inspector. On the other charge, ho was fined 40s and costs. For parking a motor truck on a fire plug, Archibald William M'Corkindale was fined 5s and costs. Stanley Fraser pleaded guilty to operating a motor car without a warrant of fitness and to being in charge of an unlighted motor car. The first charge was adjourned till January 20, defendant to pay court costs (10s) and to attend such classes as the chief traffic inspector may direct. On the other charge, he was convicted' and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months. Ralph Ennis Ward was charged with driving without due care and attention, the case being adjourned for three months, defendant to attend such driving classes as the chief traffic inspector might direct and to pay court costs (10s). Andrew Cunningham Balneaves was convicted and discharged for failing to give way to traffic on the right, Seniorsergeant Claasen stating that a satisfactory report had been received of defendant’s attendances at the driving school. George Currie was fined 20s and costs for failing to stop at the signal of a constable, and he was convicted and discharged on charges of being an unlicensed motor driver and of operating a motor car without a warrant of fitness. For driving a motor truck without a warrant of fitness, Raymond James Lynch was convicted and fined court costs (10s). A fine of 10s and costs was imposed on George Moore, who was charged with driving without due care and attention. For being an unlicensed motor driver, Charles Alfred M'Laren was fined 5s and costs. James Douglas Paterson was fined £2 and costs for exceeding a speed of 30 miles per hour, it being stated that when the defendant was driving at night he had run into a mob of horses.

Don Hardman, who was charged with exceeding a speed of 30 miles per hour, was convicted and discharged. Stanley Reginald Burns, who was similarly charged, was fined 2os and costs (10s). For driving a heavy traffic vehicle at an excessive speed, Douglas Drysdale was fined 30s and costs (10s), and Ashley George Faigan 20s and costs (10s). Thomas Evered Steel was charged with carrying a defective warning device and with having defective brakes. On the first charge he was convicted and discharged, and on the other he was fined 20s and costs. James Weir, for exceeding a speed of 30 miles an hour, was convicted and discharged. FALSE PRETENCE. John Henry Bond pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining from the Employment Promotion Branch of the New Zealand Government by false pretence the following sums at Brighton in 1937:—85, January 22; £6 ISs. March 16; £5 Bs, July 5; £3 12s 6d, December 20. Chief-detective Holmes said that between January 16 and December 18, 1937, defendant was receiving relief, and it was necessary for him to fill in declarations covering each separate period of eight weeks. Between the dates mentioned he filled in on the forms declarations which were false. The amount of defendant’s earnings during the period was £59 os 6d, and he declared that he received only £27 7s 6d, concealing from the department £3l 18s which he had earned. Excess relief was thus paid to him amounting to £l6 6s 6d. He was 54 years of age, a labourer by occupation, and at the present time he was on relief drawing sustenance. On the first charge defendant was convicted and discharged, on the second he was fined £lO, and on the third a fine of £7 was imposed. He was convicted on the last charge and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon. UNLICENSED ELECTRICAL WIREMEN. Claude Neon Lights of New Zealand Ltd. were faced with two charges of employing an unlicensed electrical wireman, and Cecil Henry Rowsell was charged with being an unlicensed electrical wireman. Rowsell was fined £2 and costs (10s), and ordered to pay solicitor’s fee (£3 3s). The other defendant was convicted and discharged on one charge, and fined £3 and costs (10s) on the other, being ordered to pay solicitor’s fee (£3 3s).