MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 June 1926, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

licensing.’ Breaches

NunierdtiS breaches of the Licensing Act tfere ifOWfri Mr.- W, Meldruxn. S-M - sit fife Gfeyriiouih Magistrate e Cduft f6-day,-but ffoh’e oL ers'' dPpB^d ; '- P, JMcCarthy ’ repreSfitiled’ _ po-Me6-.-A first offender, caught CO’n-stabk Houston at the Dunollie Hotel off mWday'; May 16, Was convicted arid ordered to pay 7/- costs. Found on the premises of Scalmer.s Hotel, Cobden, at 10 p.iH. em May 29, by Constable Baird, tWo first Ofl'endera, were each convicted and ordered to. pay 7/- costs; a second offender was convicted and fined £l, with 7/costs; and a fourth offender was convicted and fined £.2, . with 71- costs. Seveii ffifefi; found in the Union Hotel; ' GreyiriOuth, by Sergeant J. Smyiiie, at iO.-S p.iii.- 6fi June 5, were dealt wit has folioWs friitf first off end?ers each convicted and ordered to pay 7/- costs; three second offenders, convicted and fined £1 each, with. 7/- costs. A first offender caught by Sergeant Smythe in the Cobden Hotel at 11.20 p.m. on May 22, wae convicted and ordered' to pay 71- costs. Two first offenders, caught by Constable Rodgers in the Albion Hotel, Wallsefld, at 9.45 p.m. on May 30, Were similarly dealt with.

LICENSEES FINED. The Hcefisee' Of the Brian Born Hotel, Greymoutli, William Henry Gieseking (represented by Mr. W. P. McCarthy), pleaded guilty to a charge of exposing liquor for sale after hours off May 19. Mr. McCarthy said that on the night of the offence, defendant had been upstairs with his stepfather, who was seriously ill, and who died later the same night. On coming downstairs, defendant was asked by two boarders fbr a drink. Meanwhile, some other men came, into the hotel, and were served, on the understanding that they Would leave immediately afterwards. Meanwhile, however, the police arrived. The hotel was cleared immediately after the death of defendant’s stepfather. It was defendant's first offence. A conviction and fine of £2, with 7/- costs, was imposed. A second charge, of keeping open for the sale of liquor, was withdrawn. The licensee of the Dunollie Hotel, Frederick Hawken, pleaded guilty (through Mr. J. W. Hannan) to a charge of exposing liquor for sale after hours on May' 16. Mr. Hannan explained that the offence occurred oh a Sunday afternoon. Two football matches were being played at Dunollie, and two of the teams changed and had baths at the hotel.. The licensee Was out at the rear of the premises, attending to the hot water supply, and his daughter was in the bar. It was a first offence. , The Senior-Sergeant reiharked that the hotel was “wide open.” Six men

had been convicted for being illegally upon the premises. The Magistrate convicted defendant and fined him £2, with 7/- costs. A second charge of keeping open for the sale of liquor was withdrawn. DEFENCE CASE. Failure to attend the annual training camp at Burnham in March last, cost James Ludwig Machejefeski a fine of £l, with 7/- costs. Sergeant-Major Shuttleworth said that defendant had a bad military record, and had previous convictions for failing to attend parades. BROKEN BY-LAWS. The following offenders, who rode their bicycles upon footpaths, were,

oil the information of Traffic Inspector Sloss, each convicted and fined 5/-, with 7/- costs: —William Blair, . Tainui Street, May 22; John Nicholas Carruthers, Heaphy Street, May 22; William Hall, Heaphy Street, May 22; James Peyton, Tainui Street, May 22; Frederick William Trainor, Heaphy Street, May 22.' William Blundell, for riding a bicycle without a light along Bright Street, Cobden, after sunset on May 29, was, on the informations of Robert Mclntyre, Traffic Inspector for the Cobden Town Board, convicted and fined 5/-, with 7/- costs. A plea of not guilty was entered by Edward Watson, who was charged with' leaving a motor lorry on Fox Street Cobden, without lights, at 7.30 p.m. on May 28. Inspector Mclntyre gave evidence for the prosecution. Defendant said that, while on his way to Greymouth, one of the tyres punctured, and he left the lorry in order to go for a light. When the engine of his lorry was not. running, the lights were also out of action. He explained the position to the Inspector, and said that he was not nwav

from the lorry more than five minutes. The Magistrate remarked that the i- by-law must be observed, and defen- • dant would have to find a reriiedy in L some way. He would be convicted ’and fined 5/-, 'with 7/-'costs. ’