COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 13 January 1927, Page 2

COURT NEWS

STAMP FRAUD HEAVILY PENALISED. DUNEDIN, January 12. William Lawrence Hooper, a stamp dealer, trading under Hie name of W ileox, Smith and Co., was fined £59 on one charge nnd £25 on each of three other charges, for having fraudulently fixed on postal packets stamps already used. Two other charges were dismissed. SEVERE PAKAPOO FINES. WELLINGTON, January 12. Following a raid on December 22nd, two Chinese were convicted to-day for keeping a common gaming house in Taranaki Street, and were l fined £5O (having been heavily fined previously), in default three months’ ini prisonment. Anoiher Chinese similarly charged with regard to premise's in Haining Street, was fined £lO. THEFTS FROM TENNIS CLUB. WELLINGTON, January 12. Charged with tin 4 theft of sums totalling £76 3/5, belonging to the Upper Hutt Tennis Club, of which he was treasurer for sonm years, William Joseph Pyrtle Howe, aged 35, a. carpenter, pleaded guilty and was committtd to the 1 Supreme Court for sentence. A drunken" DRIVER. r I’TATARI’, January 12. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Air ('. R. Orr-Walker, S.M. Nicholas Parker Bracefiel'l was sen fenced to seven days’ harT labour for driving a car while drunk. ENGLISH PEER’S SON. ARRESTED FOR TH EFT. LONDON, Jan. 11. Lawrence* Balk, the son anel heir of Lorel Haldon, has been arrested. Balk disappeared mysteriously from a city office on December 28th, with a sum of niopny allegedly belonging io t?ie office.