COURT AT TE KARAKA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3573, 24 February 1914, Page 6

COURT AT TE KARAKA.

YESTERDAY’S SITTING. A LONG LIST. There was a fairly lengthy list of both criminal and civil business before the Court at Te Karaka yesterday, Mr W. A. Barton, S.M. presiding. William Parkinson was charged with having disobeyed - an order for the maintenance of a relative of his in an industrial school.

Defendant paid £2O off the arrears, which amounted to £33, and His Worship adjourned the case to April 27. Varl Evensen was charged with having disobeyed an order to contribute towards the maintenance of his children in the Wellington Receiving Home. - At the previous sitting of the CtujJ; defendant admitted disobedience d% tlie order and the case was adjourned. On its being called yesterday, defendant failed to appear and offered no excuse for his non-appearance. Hie Worship sentenced defendant to three months’ imprisonment, execution to be stayed for seven days, and if the amount of the arrears \£BS 19s) be then paid defendant to te released from custody. A CHARGE DISMISSED.

William G. Devery was charged with having made use of obscene language in a public place, the open bar of the Motu Hotel.

The evidence of Constable Williamson was that on January 24 f e was near the hotel at 9.0 p.m. and heard bad language being made use of-dLoo'k-ing inside lie saw accused at the bar slide, with a glass of liquor in his hand. Accused then made use of objectionable language. He arrested accused and took him ouside and on the ioadway lie made use of some very filthy expressions. Mr Kirk, for accused, said a public place was defined by the Act to include, among other things, an open bar on licensed premises. The evidence was that the language was need at the bar slide and not in a public bar.

The case was dismissed. His Worship holding that the .language was not made use of in a public place.

Albert Gleeson, of Rakauroa, was charged with having used obscene language and Mr Kirk, for accused agreed that the evidence should be taken the same as in the case against accused for using threatening language, which was dismissed. His Worship convicted accused and fined him 10s, with costs (£2 4s), in default 7 days’ imprisonment.