POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 23729, 9 November 1940, Page 20

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) LICENSING BREACHES. Andrew Hugh Todd, licensee of the Bowling Green Hotel, who was represented by All- L. 11. Simpson, pleaded guilty to selling liquor after hours, and was lined £4 and costs. Colin Gordon Campbell, Archibald Easton, John Patrick APNamara, David Miller, William Ostarascb, James William Sheddan, James Joseph Wilson, Bertram James IVright, and William Ronald Wiuton, who were all charged with being found unlawfully on the licensed premises of the Bowling Green Hotel, were each lined 10s and costs. MOTORISTS CHARGED. For failing to carry a warrant of fitness, Walter William Watt was lined 7s Od and costs (3s). William Henry Shearer was fined 5s and costs (3s) on a charge of being an unlicensed driver, and tor failing to carry a warrant of litucss, he was fined 10s and costs (3s). Alexander Stuart Stevenson was fined £2 10s and costs for driving without due care and attention, and on a similar charge John Frederick James Barnes was lined £2 5s and costs. William Ballantyne, who was represented by Mr 0. G. Stevens, pleaded not guilty to charges of using indecent language, failing to pass a vehicle on the right or off side, and failing to give his name and address after a motor accident. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate dismissed the charges of failing to pass a vehicle on the right or off side, and of failing to give his name and address, and on the charge of using indecent language the defendant was fined 6s 8d and ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses (13s 4d). FISHING WITHOUT LICENSE. Treating the matter as one of carelessness, the Magistrate dismissed a charge against William Henry Marsh of fishing without a license, this being subject to payment of solicitor’s fee (10s 6d). CHARGE AGAINST CYCLIST. A charge against Robert Maitland of riding an unlighted bicycle was adjourned .for a month, defendant to attend such traffic classes as directed by the chief traffic inspector. NUISANCE CREATED. Holding that a nuisance had been created, the Magistrate ordered Ethel May Fox, who was charged with keeping poultry so as to create a nuisance, to have them removed from the premises/ within three days. Further charges against this defendant of keeping poultry within 20ft of a building, and against George “Watson Milne of permitting premises to bo in a state to be offensive, were adjourned for a week,