POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 24297, 11 September 1942, Page 2

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) ASSAULT ON CHINAMAN. Charged with having assaulted King Jong, a Chinese market gardener, at Sawyers Bay, Thomas Edwin Millar (25) wSs convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years, a condition being that he lakes out a prohibition order. Sergeant Conway said that Millar, who lived near Jong, went into the latter’s hut while he was cooking, and threatened to blow tho place up, producing what he declared were two sticks of gelignite, but which were really two pieces of wood wrapped, and pretending to put tho fuse into the flame of a candle. Jong ran from the hut, and accused pursued him and assaulted him. Accused was under the influence of drink at the time. BREACH OP CENSORSHIP. In inflicting a penalty of £2 and costs on a defenddnt charged with a breach of the censorship regulations, the Magistrate said that ho would again ask tho Press to give publicity to the fact that it is a very grave offence to post letters overseas containing information which might be of use to the enemy. Tho defendant, Mary Thompson, had posted on to a daughter in London a letter written to her by another daughter in Wellington, This had been her custom for years.—Detective-sergeant Hall said that the defendant was unquestionably of good repute, but instructions had been issued that in all such cases prosecutions must bo brought.—His Worship, in reiterating that such offences were of a serious nature, added that in the present case it was evidently nothing else but and act of thoughtlessness. PLUMBING REGULATIONS. Being an unregistered plumber, William John Spick, a builder, pleaded guilty to having contravened the regulations covering tho carrying out of plumbing work on a house he was building for himself. On a charge of failing to obtain authority for the work he was ordered to pay costs (10s) and solicitor’s feo (£1 Is). On a second charge of having carried out plumbing work he was fined 20s, with costs and solicitor’s fee. SHORT-WEIGHT COKE. Henry Francis Lanham pleaded not guilty to a charge of having carried coke for sale which was'short of the weight stated on tho way-bill ticket. —After evidence had been given, defendant wa. convicted and fined £5 and costs. OTHER CASES. Jessie Elizabeth Reeder, owner of an unlicensed wireless set, was convicted and ordered to pay costs (10s)—A conviction onlv was entered against Delia Morris on a similar charge. For permitting his chimney to catch fire, Robinson Rccvo McNeill was fined 5s and costs. Margaret Jean Hunter-'W eston was fined 10k and costs for failing to dip tho headlights of her car. .A charge of being unlawfully on licensed premises brought against Overton Reid was dismissed, the defendant bringing evidence to show that lie had brought’ crayfish to a boarder at the hotel in response to an order.