COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 6 October 1934, Page 7

COURT NEWS

A STIFF FINE. (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI. October 3. Found in a slate of intoxication in charge of a Uiotor car Ngarino Tamou was fined £5O iu the Police Court itoday. li'. was his second offence. BETTING PROSECUTION. CIIRISTCHUR(JIL 2 October 4. “We don’t know if he is uue of tho higher-rated member.- of the association, bul we think he was in a big way.” These remarks were made by Chief-I/etcutive Dunlop in tlhe Police Court this morning. He referred to Felix Se’igvrt, thirty-nine years of age described as a bookmaker who was uhai'ged with using premises on the first flour oifi the. Majestic Theatre buildings as a common gaining hoiiso. S'iegert was fined £3O wiith costs. He pleaded gui.l'ty.

The Ch'ief--Detective said that Siegert had a room in the Alajestic. Theatre buildings. He had been in business for several years. When the police visited the premises they found slips recording bets of up ’to £-’ ss. Siegert had been qui'te frank. NATIVE BIRDS SHOT. STEWART ISLAND FISIIERAIAN FINED. INVERCARGILL. October 5. A plucked tni with a bullet mark in its breast, and a.-dead weka, were exhibited in the Bluff Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Cyril Joseph Manning, a Stewart Island fisherman, was charged on three counts that he shot native pigeons, a tui, and a weka; also that he was in possession of an unregistered firearm. On the defendant pleading guilty to the charges of shooting pigeons and a tui, the charge in respect of the weka was withdrawn. Owing to the heavy expenses incurred, defendant was fined £5 in each case, the costs and expenses totalling £9 7s Bd. On the charge of possessing an unregistered firearm, defendant plead ed guilty and was ordered to forfeit the rille and pay costs 10s.