POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 6

POLICE COURT

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26. 'Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew. S.M.) NUISANSE CAUSED BY OFFAL. A smell which could be detected 100yds away, and which had caused passengers alighting from trams in the vicinity to apply handkerchiefs to their noses, was stated by Mr George E. Stokes, chief sanitary inspector, to have been caused by fish offal which had been left over a recent week-end in the shop of William Cecil Currie, in South Dunedin. Currie was charged with having allowed an accumulation of fish offal to cause a nuisance, Mr Stokes said that the defendant's shop, which was situted in a thickly populated area, had been closed for four days, and the defendant had during that period been at Macandrew Bay. The small had come through a partly open window and door, .and had caused considerable inconvenience to the public. The defendant had been located and notified by the police to attend to the matter, but had failed to do- so. The City Corporation. said_ Mr Stokes, was endeavouring to eradicate the fly pest, and looked upon such neglect as that shown by Currie as serious. Defendant customarily kept his. shop clean. Mr C.'H. Stevens, who appeared for the defendant, said that Currie regretted the matter, which had been occacasioned by the failure of the person who had contracted to remove the offal to carry out his obligations, although reminded after defendant had _ been notified of the matter by the police. Remarking that the offence was a serious one. the Magistrate, accepting the defendant's exrjlanation. fined him £2, with costs (13s). THEFT OF CLOCK. Admitting that it was a foolish act and had been committed while he was under the influence of liquor, George Anthony Silva pleaded guilty to the theft of an alarm clock valued at £1 from the'caretaker's cubicle in a public convenience. His Worship said that, although the accused had a rather lengthy list of previous convictions, he" would be given a further chance. Defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, a condition being that he takes out a prohibition order. MOTORING OFFENCES.

On charges of driving without due care and attention, Albert John McGeo Guyton was fined £2 and costs (10s) ; Harold Fleetwood Jeft'eries, £3 and costs; and Ray Wilkinson, £3 and costs.

For failing to give way to traffic on the right Ernest William Harower Paton and. Frederick James Hampton were each fined 30s and costs.

For failing to produce his driver's license William Daniel Bernard Cody was fined £2 and costs.

For exceeding the speed limit in a restricted area, Irvine Alexander McLean Rapson and Leonard Cecil Wybrow were each finerl 20s and costs

Norman Reid, who failed to procure a warrant of fitness, was fined 10s and costs. Leslie Roves was fined 10s and costs on each of the charges of being the owner of an unlicensed vehicle and being an unlicensed driver. Jack Raymond Vernall, as the owner of an unlicensed vehicle, was fined 20s and costs.

Norah Agnew. who explained- that she had driven friends home from the : Portobello Show and some of these had ridden on the outside of the car, was ftne'd 10s and costs on a charge of driving a vehicle which was dangerously loaded. A similar penalty was inflicted upon this defendant on a charge of being an unlicensed driver